Words Quotes
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Just listen to these people. You'd swear they understood each other though not one of them has any idea what their words actually mean to another.
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And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.
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'Fine dining.' I'd love to know who coined the term and whether they meant it to be as offputting as it is. The words evoke an idea of phoney refinement, of needless flummery, snooty waiters, and an atmosphere designed to intimidate the customer.
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'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.'
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The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
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There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. Every day we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that’s made all the difference. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
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Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.
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There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
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A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
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To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.
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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
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Words, once my stock, are wanting to commendSo great a poet and so good a friend.
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Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. 'Thy words,' said he, 'Aristodemus, smell of the apron.'
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God gave us music, so we play with our words.
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There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how, when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.
