Words Quotes
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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Master, master singer, Master of words unspoken, Seven times was I born, and seven times have I died Since your last hasty visit and our brief welcome. And behold I live again, Remembering a day and a night among the hills, When your tide lifted us up.
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I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
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When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said 'The what of a what?' which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
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Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language.
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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em. Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em. They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!" I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
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The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'
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I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
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I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.
