Words Quotes
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There comes a time when you've toured a ton, and a time to be inspired again. Listen to awesome jazz records that are mellow with no words, and just sit there and read a book, or space out on your couch. And eventually, all that inspiration comes.
Kurt Vile
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A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
Edward Steichen
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Words make love with one another.
Andre Breton
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My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words.
Jenny Scheinman
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A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
Lao Tzu
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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
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My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.
Lea DeLaria
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I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.
August Wilson
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My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
Mario Testino
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Time will tell and we will watch with interest how they put their action with their words.
Kenny Johnson
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Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
Joanne Rowling
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People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today.
David Jeremiah
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...Take this all of you and eat it. This is my body which will be given up for you...Old words; old rituals. But they still made sound commercial sense.Talk of Power and Might would always attract an audience. Lords never went out of fashion.
Clive Barker
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For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them.
George Berkeley
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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
James Buchan
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It is rewarding beyond words to rescue a dog from the shelter and have that dog become part of your family.
Jenna Morasca
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Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.
Anthony McCarten
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
Anne Enright
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Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
Carol Berg
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I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
Ellie Goulding
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When a part of our nation gets knocked down, we come together to help pick it up again. No questions asked. That's the American way, and I would expect every single member of Congress to support that sentiment with their words, their actions, and their votes.
Paul Tonko