Words Quotes
-
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
-
He's an emotional guy, but I don't believe what went on the field tonight outside of baseball deserves any words.
-
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.
-
In the early '90s, there was an attention to diversity. In this country, diversity was a good thing. People would use words like 'multicultural' and like it. Now, politically, those words are out. But I still feel theaters have to be diverse in order to survive.
-
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
-
There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
-
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
-
My words wear no parachutes as they fall out of my mouth.
-
Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.
-
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
-
And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.
-
By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
-
'Beware Okonkwo!' she warned. 'Beware of exchanging words with Agbala. Does a man speak when a god speaks? Beware!'
-
One of the most extraordinary examples of adaptation to immaturity in contemporary American society today is how the word abusive has replaced the words nasty and objectionable.
-
Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.
-
Words and works eat not at one table.
-
I have kids, so I can understand the image that footballers have. They are fans of some players; I see in their eyes. They admire and try to imitate their gestures, their words, their celebrations. They love Ronaldo and Messi. Since Euro 2016, though, they have no right to pronounce the name of Ronaldo!
-
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
-
Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
-
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
-
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'
-
The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
-
The words of the world want to make sentences.
-
Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.
