Words Quotes
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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
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What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
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If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. 'Thy words,' said he, 'Aristodemus, smell of the apron.'
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The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.
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A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
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The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
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Words are the voice of the heart.
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I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!
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As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.
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A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
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Words belong to each other.
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I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food—they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. “My brother is in prison.” Those words tasted bitter.
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I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.
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Countless words count less than the silent balance between yin and yang
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Music takes us where words cannot.
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I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.
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You can put anything into words, except your own life.
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With our bodies we make statements before we speak, our presentation is a language spoken without words. You—and only you—get to decide what it is you’re trying to say.
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You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
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When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
