Words Quotes
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You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
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The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
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Resolutions require only words. Results take action.
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I wish we had fewer bad words in 'Jump Street.' That would probably be better.
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Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
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I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.
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The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
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In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.
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The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
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I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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We're all surrounded by words like air, and we all need them even though they are often invisible, just like air.
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...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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My name is Jimmy Carter, and I’m running for President. It’s been a long time since I said those words the first time, and now I’ve come here after seeing our great country to accept your nomination.
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Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
