Words Quotes
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I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.
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I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no words would come out. I'd do a couple of takes and eventually I could run the lines.
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
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Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.
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I will never use swear words unless they're necessary and unless I feel that is what the character would have said in those circumstances."
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Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
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To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
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One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
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When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
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I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.
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There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
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Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
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We have to train ourselves to use words accurately. And there's so much loose Christian talk, for which I've no doubt been as guilty as any.
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Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.
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Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.
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Literally, we haven’t played ‘Treatment Bound’ in years, so I’m sitting there writing the words for the second time in my life. The first time was when we did it and the second time is here, 30 years later.
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Words are the voice of the heart.
