Words Quotes
-
In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.
Van Jones
-
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
James Merrill
-
Posion' introduced lyrics for the first time. It doesn't mean anything but people can relate to those words in whichever way they choose. That started to open up other possibilities to the band, both in the terms of the gigs and on record.
Maxim The Prodigy
-
When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.
H. L. Mencken
-
Sometimes people honestly don't realize the magnitude of their words and have no idea that boundaries have been crossed.
Judy Smith
-
My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.
Jens Lekman
-
I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
Eric Rohmer
-
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.
Plutarch
-
The romance of Creator and creation is far more wonderful and profound than anyone can ever capture in words.
Brian D. McLaren
-
Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
Eugene Ionesco
-
I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
Jack Dorsey
-
The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.
Thomas Hobbes
-
Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
Malala Yousafzai
-
Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
Bill Frist
-
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
Hermann Hesse
-
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
-
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila
-
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
William Shakespeare
-
Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
-
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
Joanna Scott
-
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
Young Jeezy
-
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
Mary Steenburgen
-
I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
Yoko Ono
-
Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.
Johnny Depp