Words Quotes
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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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Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
Rumi
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Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
Eugene Ionesco
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Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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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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There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
Ellin Devis
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Language is powerful. Words matter.
Eric Metaxas
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Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.
Gautama Buddha
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Poetry’s not made of words.
Ariana Reines
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Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission
Eugene Ionesco
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We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.
David Clement-Davies
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I don't have your way with words "Sin said. "So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha
Sarah Rees Brennan
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Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
Beth Kephart
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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.
Jane Austen
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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.
Juan Pablo Galavis
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Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing.
Martin Luther
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...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
Agnes Varda
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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
Elvis Costello
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Wake the happy words.
Theodore Roethke
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You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.
Natsuki Takaya