Words Quotes
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Words can cause real harm and interfere with a person's education. Campuses have a duty to act-- sometimes legally, always morally-- to protect their students from injury.
Erwin Chemerinsky
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
Erica Jong
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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
Lao Tzu
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The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.
Bob Goff
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Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
Jennifer Granholm
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Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.
Gautama Buddha
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
Haruki Murakami
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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'.
Ernst Gombrich
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
Jose Saramago
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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.
Peter Greenaway
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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.
Marti Noxon
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But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
Sarah Dessen
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We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.
Homer
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There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer
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I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.
Dustin Hoffman
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
Norm MacDonald
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
Cesare Pavese
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If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.
Ben Weaver
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Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.
Diane Ackerman
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Language is powerful. Words matter.
Eric Metaxas
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I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.
Gene Luen Yang
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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.
Jordan Peterson
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On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.
Alan Alda
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But I’ve always had a low voice, I can’t yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.
Elena Ferrante