Words Quotes
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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
James Schuyler
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I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.
Andrew Bird
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I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often in a cafe in the morning after the school run.
Lisa Jewell
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As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
John Langdon
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The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.
Marshall McLuhan
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I probably have more words to say in 'Mr. Robot' than I've had in my entire career put together.
Craig Robinson
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Communication feels like it should be the simplest thing, but it's not. Sometimes you don't even understand what you're feeling. You don't know how to put that into words, so how are you suppose to tell the person you love that you're upset.
Taissa Farmiga
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Words have a longevity that I do not have.
Paul Kalanithi
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
Alan Jackson
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Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.
Lucy Dacus
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At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.
Ashwin Sanghi
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
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Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
Rene Girard
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Martha Beck
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In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
Allen Tate
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I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.
Jim Garrison
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I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.
Lawrence Welk
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God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
D. A. Carson
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Words are fine, but the most important thing is what happens on the pitch.
Claudio Ranieri
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The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
Plutarch
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The question must also be raised as to whether we have the actual words of Jesus in any Gospel.
John Shelby Spong
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
Jonathan Swift