George du Maurier Quotes
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George du Maurier
Quotes to Explore
There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
Edmund Morgan
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
P. J. Harvey
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath
It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
Gabrielle Aplin
Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
Karin Slaughter
I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
J. B. Smoove
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
Wayne Coyne
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tone matters more than words.
Kangana Ranaut
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Malcolm de Chazal
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
Laura Marling
Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.
Inga Muscio
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
L. Ron Hubbard
What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.
Anton Zaslavski
The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
Hank Stram
Girl, tell me only this:That I'll have your heart for always.And you want me by your side,Whispering the words 'I'll always love you.'
Lionel Richie
Words matter. Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.
Hillary Clinton
Language, he understood, was chiefly important for the beauty of its sounds, by its possession of words resonant, glorious to the ear, by its capacity, when- exquisitely arranged, of suggesting wonderful and indefinable impressions, perhaps more ravishing and farther removed from the domain of strict thought than the impressions excited by music itself.
Arthur Machen
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.
James Fenton
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George du Maurier
