Words Quotes
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Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.
Bill Callahan
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Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
Jason Calacanis
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They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.
Eddie Campbell
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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
Franz Liszt
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Some people write a thank you note for a gift, and it's three pages long, and some people write a thank you note, and it's five sentences - that's me. I like to pare away words because I don't want to waste anyone's time.
Bill Callahan
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God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.
Rabindranath Tagore
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History as she is harped. Rite words in rote order. (pp. 108-109)
Marshall McLuhan
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There are two words for everything.
E. V. Lucas
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Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
Margaret Mitchell
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All our words and acts are passing in review before God.
Ellen G. White
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Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.
Alice Sebold
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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
Valerie Plame
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When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.
Christopher Paolini
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It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
Galen Rowell
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He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby Bowden
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I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.
Adriana Lima
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I'm cautious about a lot of words.
James Hillman
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I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.
James Howe
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
J. G. Holland
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell
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'I don't really know what happened. I just fell out of the nest.' But the second Soren said those words he felt a weird queasiness. He almost knew. He just couldn't quite remember, but he almost knew how it had happened, and he felt a mixture of dread and shame creep through him. He felt something terrible deep in his gizzard.
Kathryn Lasky
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I feel like nowadays everybody I know has a smidge of geek in them. In other words, they have some odd niche or some obsessive tendencies.
Josh Zuckerman
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In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together.
Chris Jericho