Words Quotes
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Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.
John Milton
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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
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So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.
Anthony Caro
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Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.
P. C. Cast
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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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Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter articulated next summer.
Plutarch
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Posion' introduced lyrics for the first time. It doesn't mean anything but people can relate to those words in whichever way they choose. That started to open up other possibilities to the band, both in the terms of the gigs and on record.
Maxim The Prodigy
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I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
John Shirley
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Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
David Lodge
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In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
Alexandra Fuller
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I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
Eyvind Kang
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No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.
Thomas Hobbes
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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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I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.
Marlee Matlin
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Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!
Brooke Burke
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No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams
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No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur
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Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.
Hafez
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All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
Thomas Aquinas
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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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Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain formula of words, shouldn't bar them from anything. But, no one's saying that polygamy should be institutionalized in this country. That Muslim's uniquely should be allowed to have two or three or four marriages.
Sadakat Kadri
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson