Words Quotes
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Accomplishment begins with two words: 'I'll try.'
Abbey Curran
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It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.
Denis Lavant
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Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
Alexandra Petri
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Before they read words, children are reading pictures.
David Wiesner
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As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.
Vaclav Havel
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Lemony Snicket: (narrating) Reading poetry, even if you are only reading to find a secret message within its words, can often give one a feeling of power, the way you can feel powerful if you are the only one who brought an umbrella on a rainy day, or the only one who knows how to untie knots when you're taken hostage.
Daniel Handler
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Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.
John Ortberg
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All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary.
Ashwin Sanghi
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As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said.
John Marshall
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I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.
Kris Kristofferson
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Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
Lao Tzu
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My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.
Clemantine Wamariya
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My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say prayers against his will. He was right.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington.
Conan O'Brien
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For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.
Anthony Marra
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The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu
