Words Quotes
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One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.
Elia Kazan -
Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms.
Jeff Cohen
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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 -
Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.
Ashraf Ghani -
The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.
Barack Obama -
The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words
Max Frisch -
How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
God gave us music, so we play with our words.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Be prepared to fall out of love with your words. I'm still too verbose at times.
Josh Elliott -
If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.
Confucius -
East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through. For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. From the moment the sleigh had vanished from sight and I could no longer hear the silver bells I knew that I would go after the stranger that had been the white bear to make right the terrible wrong I had done him.... All that mattered was to make things right. And I would do whatever it took, journey to wherever I must, to reach that goal.
Edith Pattou -
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson -
His words stroll out like well-dressed senior citizens on an afternoon walk.
Adam Fletcher -
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
Annie Lobert
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The mind advances only when it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.
Emil Cioran -
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
Agnes Varda -
Jerome never liked me - preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature - all swear-words and scatology - before it became fashionable.
Peter Greenaway -
My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!
Alan Rufus -
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
John Buchan -
Movements are as eloquent as words.
Isadora Duncan
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
Bob Goff -
Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
Abraham Coles -
All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
Thomas Aquinas -
All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
Yevgeny Zamyatin