Words Quotes

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

I have no words for my reality.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

So the lover must struggle for words.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

Physics has the cutest words.

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.