Words Quotes
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
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I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.
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I swallowed down all the words, until they knotted up in my throat, and now I'm choking on I love you's and please don't go's.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
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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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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.
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To this day, I like the version of movies that don't have the curse words. I'm very reserved that way.
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I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
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Who has words at the right moment?
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
