Words Quotes
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Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.
N. Scott Momaday
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There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.
Jared Padalecki
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Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.
Jack Kerouac
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The politician is...trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
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I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from the time I was a child to even now with my family helping with my little boy. It's worth more than words could ever describe. That's one of the ways I've been able to stay grounded is thanks to family and God.
Ashton Shepherd
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
Sally Phillips
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
Douglas Coupland
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Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.
Lisa See
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Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.
Harlan Stone
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I'm used to big roles and lots of words.
Christopher Plummer
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It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.
James Caan
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
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As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.
Elle Varner
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So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
Bono U2
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'And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned. '
P. G. Wodehouse
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When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.
Confucius
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New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.
Mark Walport
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If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.
Mary Lambert
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Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!
Rabindranath Tagore
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Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.
Barbara Sukowa
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Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
Jayne Anne Phillips
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In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.
E. J. Dionne
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Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
Kate Smith