Words Quotes
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I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.
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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
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One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
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Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
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My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
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Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.
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...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.
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I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.
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It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words.
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Conclusion 1: Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words.
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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.
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There will be people who don't like you or aren't convinced. I'd rather let my work talk than justify in words.
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A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
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What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right'.
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In other words, volume trumps calories. We eat the volume we want, not the calories we want.
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When I knew what I had to do I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts and ate them page by page so I could take my words with me.
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Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A I believe that, or B I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.
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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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Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
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They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers...
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Some of the words that pop up on the show have had terrible connotations. But that's the beauty of 'Countdown.'
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Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
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I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
