Words Quotes
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Actions speak louder than words.
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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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I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.
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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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...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.
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There is no meaning to space that is independent of the relationships among real things of the world. ...Space is nothing apart from the things that exist. ...If we take out all the words we are not left with an empty sentence, we are left with nothing.
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The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'
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The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves.
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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.
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In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
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When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.
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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.
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Each word is pumped up with consonant cholesterol. It's full of fat words. The pages cream with subcutaneous fat. New letters are gilded like showy teeth, making comprehension constipated and exorbitantly metalled.
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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
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But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
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The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
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I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
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It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.
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For one thing, she was fairly certain that any sentence that used more exclamation points than words was an abomination.
