Words Quotes
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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
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There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.
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Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
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When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.
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I'm not going to rip all that up. It's water over the dam. The people have gotten used to it. You know, that's what Stare Decisis is all about. In other words, I am an originalist. I am a textualist. I am not a nut.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.
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It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: "We can be lonely together.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
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Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.
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He reached across and fingered the pendant; I felt it move against my skin. "Willow, look," He said. "We haven't talked much about what might happen, but...you know that I always want to be with you, right? I mean--no matter what." And I had known it; I felt it every time he held me--but even so, actually hearing the words made my heart catch. "I want that, too," I said. "Always, Alex.
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England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
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If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
