Words Quotes
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Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.
Lee Radziwill -
In other words, when the community of faith gathers, its purpose is to equip its members for a life of love and good deeds when the community scatters.
Brian D. McLaren
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Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.
Claire Denis -
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
Alasdair Gray -
There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.
George W. Crane -
Not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.
Paul Kalanithi -
When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.
H. L. Mencken -
Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
Al Pacino -
I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
Eric Rohmer -
Where otherwise words were, flow discoveries, freed all surprised out of the fruit’s flesh.
Gayle Brandeis
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When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Meg Rosoff -
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa -
The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.
Bahá'u'lláh -
Coming into existence is always bad for those who come into existence. In other words, although we may not be able to say of the never-existent that never existing is good for them, we can say of the existent that existence is bad for them.
David Benatar -
...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the lighting, exposure and composition of the photograph.
Arthur Rothstein -
It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley
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I wrote my name upon the sand;I thought I wrote it on thine heart.I had no touch of fear, that words,Such words, so graven, could depart.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
Words have a lot of power.
Juice Wrld -
I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.
Annette Gordon-Reed -
The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.
Beth Kephart