Words Quotes
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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
Regina Brett
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I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.
Paul Weller Incognito
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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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I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.
Alexa Vega
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Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)
Walt Whitman
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Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
John Locke Nazareth
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What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
Octavio Paz
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I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food—they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. “My brother is in prison.” Those words tasted bitter.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
Drake
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
Don DeLillo
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As a nation we've been faced with so many tragedies since the beginning of this Millennium and I believe we have even more reason to pray. Many people don't feel capable in that area and I wanted to create music that helped them find the words that could bring peace.
Oleta Adams
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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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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson
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Well,” said Owl, “the customary procedure in such cases is as follows.” “What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?” said Pooh. “For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.
A. A. Milne
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Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.
Yang Wanli
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I can’t say anything. There are no words.
Bram van Velde
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One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.
Danny Gokey
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With all of the characters I've played, I feel like I've tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That's something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.
Dakota Fanning
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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
Confucius
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Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.
Tanith Lee
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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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The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
John Strachan