Words Quotes
-
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
-
Use your words to lift and inspire. You may just change someone's world.
-
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
-
People who take things too literally don't get much of anything from my teaching. By never saying anything I mean, I say a great deal. I never mean anything I say under oath. I never mean exactly what I say. Not even this. You have to read between the words.
-
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
-
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
-
Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.
-
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
-
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
-
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
-
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
-
When those of us in the words-making world use the term 'overregulation,' we are mostly putting a name to a concept we rarely experience consciously.
-
With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?
-
To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
-
What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.
-
It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
-
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
-
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
-
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.
-
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
-
In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save literature, educators must take command of the pre-rational world of images. The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
-
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
-
Listen to the words people say in their lyrics, and tell me, if that's some real shit, if that's real to you, you know what I mean. Listen to what they sayin', don't just bob your head to the beat, peep the game, and listen to what Im saying. Hold us accountable for it.
