Words Quotes
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Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.
Louise Slaughter
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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. In other words, if a young man or a young woman has no opportunity of getting married, and they live faithful lives up to the time of their death, they will have all the blessings, exaltation, and glory that any man or woman will have who had this opportunity and improved it. But if they think marshmallows and sweet potatoes are delicious, they're going to burn. That is sure and positive.
Lorenzo Snow
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The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther
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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Johann Georg Hamann
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… who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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The symbol is the tool which gives man his power, and it is the same tool whether the symbols are images or words, mathematical signs or mesons.
Jacob Bronowski
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I can sleep fine at night knowing that even though my honesty might not translate very diplomatically, the words I speak have good intent, and I live my life with great integrity.
Yolanda Hadid
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Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
Baker Brownell
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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.
Bruce Feiler
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce
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Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.
Dennis Flanagan
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Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.
Berenice Bejo
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A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.
Tanith Lee
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1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
Queen Elizabeth II
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No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
Mark Hopkins
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All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.
Bruce Willis
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39: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan Perlis
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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
Seamus Heaney
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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.
Joanna Scott
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
E. B. White
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Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
Sara Teasdale
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Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
Ananda Coomaraswamy