Words Quotes

• Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.

  

  Carole King
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Forever

• The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Facts

• My mother had been a Latin teacher, and she was always very fascinated with words. She and I shared books and responded to them.

  

  Jean Fritz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Teacher

• I know at least... oh my God, at least 127 words. And I still prefer 'Fuck'.

  

  Billy Connolly
  • God
  • Words

• With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Feeling

• Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Person
  • Enemy
  • Act

• Two men dressed in white jeans with white caps on their heads.. ..climbing over a large sign of white letters. Of course, the words spell something, but that is unimportant. What is important is their white, and the white of the letters.

  

  Mark Tobey
  • Men
  • Important
  • Words

• The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

  

  James Harrington
  • Men
  • Words
  • Law

• I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

  

  Lorrie Moore
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Words
  • Language

• If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Music
  • Country
  • Momma

• A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Words

• No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Work
  • True
  • Respect

• If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Wise

• There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Words

• As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Words

• A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Words
  • Led
  • Nobleman

• The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous humRuns through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.No nightly trance or breathed spellInspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  

  John Milton
  • Words
  • Leaving
  • Dumb

• We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • Time
  • Live
  • Community

• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • High
  • Hope

• I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Words

• I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Words

• The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Education
  • Beginning
  • Investigation

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