Words Quotes
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I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.
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It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
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I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
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Words are women, deeds are men.
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That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
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In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids
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In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.
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I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.
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In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
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Banish the words 'I can't' from your vocabulary. Remember: If 'can't' equals 'won't', 'can' equals 'will.'
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When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
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The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
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In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
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To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
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For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity each day to set down - sit down and then set down thoughts, words - it's a crucial, crucial way of staying alive, of not allowing yourself and not allowing the culture outside yourself to totally dominate your life.
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I have to chose my words carefully.
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The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.
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You're writing about young, vibrant people; there are wins and losses. In other words, it's great drama.
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Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation.
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Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
