Words Quotes

‘In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.’ – Robert Frost

‘No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.’ – Robin Williams

‘People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘Where words fail, music speaks.’ – Hans Christian Andersen

‘The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.’ – John Greenleaf Whittier

‘Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.’ – Josh Billings

‘As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.’ – Lao Tzu

‘I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.’ – Georgia O’Keeffe

‘The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.’ – Paul Simon

‘Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘When words leave off, music begins.’ – Heinrich Heine

‘Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.’ – Sarah Bernhardt

‘Silence is better than unmeaning words.’ – Pythagoras

‘Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.’ – Buddha

‘Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.’ – Mark Twain

‘Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.’ – Stephen King

‘If you dream of becoming an eagle, you follow your dreams and not the words of a bunch of chickens.’ – Penny Johnson Jerald

‘Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.’ – Boris Pasternak

‘A picture is worth a thousand words.’ – Unknown

‘The temple of art is built in words.’ – Josiah Gilbert Holland

‘Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.’ – Thomas Gray

‘The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.’ – Harriet Beecher Stowe

‘A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.’ – Henrik Ibsen

‘Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.’ – Taylor Swift

‘In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.’ – Wallace Stevens

‘A picture is a poem without words.’ – Horace

‘Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.’ – E. Y. Harburg

‘All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.’ – Alexandre Dumas

‘Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.’ – Socrates

‘A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.’ – Ingrid Bergman

‘Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘The language of friendship is not words but meanings.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.’ – Florence Nightingale

‘Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.’ – Rudyard Kipling

‘A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.’ – Confucius

‘Words have a lot of power.’ – Juice Wrld

‘Body language and tone of voice – not words – are our most powerful assessment tools.’ – Christopher Voss

‘Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.’ – Homer

‘The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.’ – Harold S. Geneen

‘Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.’ – Elbert Hubbard

‘The body says what words cannot.’ – Martha Graham

‘Good words cool more than cold water.’ – John Ray

‘Music is only love looking for words.’ – Lawrence Durrell

‘Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.’ – William Shakespeare

‘A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.’ – John Ruskin

‘Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?’ – Robert Browning

‘I know no words of prayer – God help me because I can not help myself.’ – Harold E. Hughes

‘You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.’ – Joel Osteen

‘If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.’ – Gustav Mahler

‘Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.’ – Flora Lewis

‘The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Words are all we have.’ – Samuel Beckett

‘The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.’ – Maria Montessori

‘The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.’ – Philip K. Dick

‘Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘I define a ‘good person’ as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their ‘shadow’ – they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.’ – John Bradshaw

‘Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?’ – Carl Jung

‘Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.’ – Simone de Beauvoir

‘I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.’ – Joan Miro

‘The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.’ – Paul Washer

‘Every time I step on stage an’ see all of the lights or hear fans singing the words to my songs ,it’s a surreal moment for me.’ – A Boogie wit da Hoodie

‘Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey.’ – Stacy Martin

‘Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.’ – Ellen G. White

‘You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.’ – Florence Scovel Shinn

‘Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.’ – Deborah Bull

‘All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.’ – Epictetus

‘Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it’s not compromised. It’s blunt. It’s raw, straight off the street – from the beat to the voice to the words.’ – Nas

‘Good words are worth much, and cost little.’ – George Herbert

‘Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it.’ – Marian Keyes

‘Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn’t change.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.’ – Bear Grylls

‘There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.’ – Thomas Reid

‘Sometimes I wish my first word was ‘quote,’ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‘end quote.” – Steven Wright

‘We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you’re going to have to keep on saying that. You’re going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.’ – Fred Hampton

‘Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.’ – Charles Fillmore

‘Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‘elephant’.’ – Charlie Chaplin

‘In my songs there are no bad words, so kids can sing them, and girls can identify with singing with them, too, because it’s not like a man singing reggaeton.’ – Karol G

‘Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.’ – Billie Eilish

‘One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.’ – Voltaire

‘Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.’ – John Maynard Keynes

‘Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.’ – Andre Maurois

‘Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.’ – Plautus

‘Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.’ – Steve Prefontaine

‘I’m not a man of many words, I’m not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.’ – Kris Allen

‘Poetry: the best words in the best order.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘The sound of water is worth more than all the poets’ words.’ – Octavio Paz

‘Strong government doesn’t mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration – in other words, ‘good governance.’ – Raghuram Rajan’ – Raghuram Rajan

‘Memorizing lines isn’t really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.’ – Andrew Lawrence

‘There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.’ – Aeschylus

‘It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.’ – Mark Harmon

‘It does not require many words to speak the truth.’ – Chief Joseph

‘The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.’ – Johnny Iuzzini

‘The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.’ – Sarah Fielding

‘Words are the money of fools.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘Be original. That’s my best advice. You’re going to find that there’s something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don’t skimp on the words. Work on the words.’ – Bob Seger

‘Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.’ – Jane Goodall

‘Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.” – Max Planck

‘Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.’ – Sam Walton

‘Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.’ – Mother Teresa

‘I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.’ – John Coltrane

‘Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.’ – John Muir

‘To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.’ – Eleanor Catton

‘Philosophy is common sense with big words.’ – James Madison

‘Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.’ – Samuel Butler

‘And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.’ – Mary Shelley

‘Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.’ – Shari Arison

‘Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.’ – Ann Landers

‘I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don’t speak it fluently. I’m ashamed of that.’ – Michael Trevino

‘I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.’ – Ann Hood

‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.’ – Moses

‘I have no words to express and completely speechless to talk about him. I am a big fan of Vidyut.’ – Urvashi Rautela

‘I stand behind these words: I’m a Christian, but I’m not perfect.’ – NF

‘One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.’ – William Strunk, Jr.

‘I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.’ – Mukesh Ambani

‘For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.’ – Paul Anka

‘Words are illusions.’ – Bodhidharma

‘The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.’ – Hazrat Inayat Khan

‘No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.’ – Alexander Pope

‘If there is no word that means you don’t have the concept. In North Korea they eliminate the words: depression, stress, dictatorship, human rights. You cannot think of those. That’s why all the brainwashing was possible.’ – Park Yeon-mi

‘Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.’ – George Orwell

‘My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘Mining is a dangerous profession. There’s no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.’ – Tawni O’Dell

‘Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.’ – Manly Hall

‘Music comes to me more readily than words.’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘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

‘Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.’ – Evelyn Waugh

‘We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‘We, the people.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.’ – Audre Lorde

‘When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.’ – Ansel Adams

‘When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.’ – Toni Morrison

‘Illiteracy causes violence. If you don’t have enough words in your vocabulary, you can’t even seek your way out of a situation.’ – KRS-One

‘An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can’t explain it. They really can’t translate feeling because they’re not part of it. That’s why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.’ – Bill Evans

‘It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like ‘What about lunch?” – A. A. Milne

‘The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.’ – Aristotle

‘Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words.’ – Laurie Anderson

‘Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.’ – Lois Lowry

‘I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.’ – Mencius

‘Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘If you don’t give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don’t hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘There’s many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound… Even words can communicate.’ – David Carson

‘It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.’ – Kanye West

‘Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.’ – Charles Dickens

‘No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.’ – Henry Adams

‘We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.’ – Abigail Adams

‘I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren’t really about anything – which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.’ – J. Cole

‘The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.’ – Saint Augustine

‘In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.’ – Alan Watts

‘Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.’ – John Lydon

‘Words, without power, is mere philosophy.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.’ – Chinua Achebe

‘I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.’ – Mary Oliver

‘A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.’ – Ben Shneiderman

‘Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.’ – William Penn

‘Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.’ – Dan Quayle

‘My words have always either attracted a strong mind or offended a weak one.’ – Sherlyn Chopra

‘There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.’ – William Tecumseh Sherman

‘How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.’ – Herbert Spencer

‘Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.’ – Henry James

‘If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin’ words.’ – Dolly Parton

‘Words are loaded pistols.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.’ – Bryan Ferry

‘There’s a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There’s a limit to what you can do without speaking.’ – Jason Statham

‘Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.’ – Jim Rohn

‘So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.’ – Paul Auster

‘It’s depression. You can’t put it into words. You get stuck and time passes by. I’m stood there on the edge of a cliff, can’t go back and can’t go forward. Days go by. I’m still in the same place. Everyone else’s life goes on, but you’re stuck. You try and try and try and I don’t know how, but you came out of it eventually.’ – Kell Brook

‘People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.’ – Bob Marley

‘I’m gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.’ – Mitch Hedberg

‘People do not want words – they want the sound of battle – the battle of destiny.’ – Gamal Abdel Nasser

‘We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.’ – John Bunyan

‘I live by two words: tenacity and gratitude.’ – Henry Winkler

‘I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.’ – Richard Wright

‘Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.’ – John Dewey

‘It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.’ – Swami Sivananda

‘I’m not the best person at putting words together. I can’t give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.’ – Meek Mill

‘When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.’ – Mae West

‘Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.’ – Edward Hopper

‘In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘The human brain is a funny thing: it’s very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.’ – Ray Stevens

‘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.’ – L. Ron Hubbard

‘The fewer the words, the better the prayer.’ – Martin Luther

‘Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.’ – George Eliot

‘The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.’ – Bjornstjerne Bjornson

‘Sometimes words are harder than blows.’ – Zinedine Zidane

‘But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.’ – Lord Byron

‘In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.’ – Utada Hikaru

‘There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.’ – David Bowie

‘The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: masonry and communism… we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.’ – Francisco Franco

‘How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!’ – Samuel Adams

‘I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.’ – Tim Burton

‘Be not a slave of words.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, ‘Tell the truth.’ If I got three more words, I’d add, ‘All the time.” – Randy Pausch

‘Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.’ – Francois Rabelais

‘When deeds speak, words are nothing.’ – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

‘It’s a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don’t like is predictable.’ – Naomi Campbell

‘The ultimate goal of therapy… it’s too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.’ – Irvin D. Yalom

‘It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.’ – William Morris

‘It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.’ – Herman Melville

‘Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.’ – Dag Hammarskjold

‘You don’t have to be a poet, you don’t have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.’ – Amanda Gorman

‘Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.’ – Charles Simic

‘Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.’ – Wendell Johnson

‘My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.’ – Matthew Perry

‘The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.’ – Groucho Marx

‘The reason they call it ‘golf’ is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.’ – Leslie Nielsen

‘The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.’ – Vladimir Nabokov

‘Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘People don’t really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action.’ – Volodymyr Zelensky

‘Words have power. Words created this universe… Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, ‘In the beginning was the word.’ In the same way, your words have creative power.’ – Bo Sanchez

‘One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.’ – James Earl Jones

‘I’m very direct, I don’t believe in wasting time, in wasting words.’ – Deborah Meaden

‘When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else – the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.’ – Pina Bausch

‘Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.’ – Guy Debord

‘All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.’ – Eric Idle

‘We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.’ – Virginia Woolf

‘It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.’ – Bette Davis

‘The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.’ – Amy Tan

‘They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don’t speak. People speak, and people are loud.’ – Jennette McCurdy

‘Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You’ve got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it’s a very lonely and scary place. It’s just you and the other guy.’ – Frank Bruno

‘Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.’ – Franz Liszt

‘I think one of the best words in the English language is ‘compassion.’ I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care… and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.’ – Michael Crawford

‘Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.’ – Learned Hand

‘When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.’ – Robert Greene

‘We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.’ – John Fowles

‘I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.’ – Anne Frank

‘Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.’ – Dylan Thomas

‘Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.’ – Carl Friedrich Gauss

‘Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.’ – Douglas Horton

‘Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.’ – Francis Bacon

‘A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. ‘I’m wrong’ are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude.’ – Richard M. DeVos

‘Words can come and go. Your acts are going to speak for themselves.’ – Javier Hernandez

‘Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.’ – Jok Church

‘When there’s no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon’s only tool.’ – Paul Kalanithi

‘People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.’ – Orson Welles

‘I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien

‘Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, ‘Casino Royale’ dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.’ – Ian Fleming

‘Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?’ – Zhuangzi

‘Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of… I want to be very careful about how I say this… in terms of supporting one’s voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you’re singing. So be true to your vowels.’ – Julie Andrews

‘Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.’ – Leonard Bernstein

‘I believe words should amaze or amuse. Only then will the listener want to understand the meaning of the song.’ – Gulzar

‘I am a simple man who comes from a village, and villagers like us speak our mind. Now, in the process, if unknowingly my words came across as disrespectful or insulting, then I am deeply sorry. I don’t want to hurt anyone.’ – Arijit Singh

‘I love puns and plays on words, which is why I love RuPaul so much.’ – Jinkx Monsoon

‘I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you’re not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I’m using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.’ – Helen Vendler

‘It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.’ – Sophocles

‘Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.’ – Dorothy Day

‘It is hard to put into words how grateful I am to continue my career with ESPN.’ – Doris Burke

‘The French word for wanderlust or wandering is ‘errance.’ The etymology is the same as ‘error.’ So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.’ – Robyn Davidson

‘In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Words are but pictures of our thoughts.’ – John Dryden

‘Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.’ – Louis Nizer

‘There are about 30 words around you all the time, like ‘thread’ or ‘exit.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

‘A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.’ – George Washington

‘Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel’s nature into us.’ – Frederick William Faber

‘Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.’ – Jojo Moyes

‘The two most frightening words in Washington are ‘bipartisan consensus.’ Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say ‘thank you’ for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the supreme honour that a scientist can receive. Some of the giants in physics and chemistry have received this prize.’ – Gerhard Herzberg

‘Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.’ – Maryanne Wolf

‘The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.’ – May Sarton

‘Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can’t.’ – Dan Reynolds

‘I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace… on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.’ – William Drummond

‘The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.’ – Willie Dixon

‘I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there’s something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it’s not something that you’re in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.’ – Eugene Delacroix

‘All I needed to do was sing with conviction, speaking my truth from the heart, honestly and straightforwardly, and to offer my words, ideas and music to the audience as if it were one collective friend that I’d known for a very long time.’ – Carole King

‘In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘I don’t quite know what zany is. I think they should think of some new words.’ – Vic Reeves

‘When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can’t hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.’ – Greg Boyle

‘For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.’ – George W. Bush

‘I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.’ – Satya Nadella

‘I’m the one person who wears the words ‘hustle, loyalty, respect’ on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It’s very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it’s even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, ‘I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You’re a role model for my son.” – John Cena

‘Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words – that’s magical. That’s what I’ve been trying to strive for – to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.’ – Mos Def

‘I believe in choosing your words very carefully. It’s funny: I’ll get comments like, ‘Oh I love you. You don’t care; you have no filter.’ On the contrary, I absolutely have a filter, because I understand decorum, and my objective is not to upset people.’ – Iliza Shlesinger

‘People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.’ – Felix Mendelssohn

‘The harshest criticism may be the best words you ever hear.’ – Eric Yuan

‘The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.’ – W. H. Auden

‘There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.’ – Matt Lauer

‘Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.’ – Francois Fenelon

‘Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.’ – John Eldredge

‘I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.’ – Lewis Hine

‘I hope that I will be the last victim in China’s long record of treating words as crimes.’ – Liu Xiaobo

‘Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.’ – Mary Roberts Rinehart

‘Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.’ – William J. Clinton

‘I type 40 words per minute on a normal computer with my left foot. And with two cups of coffee, I can do 53 words per minute.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one’s will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.’ – Paul Gauguin

‘As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘When I first read the words ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert’ when I was 10, I thought I was both.’ – Annie Dillard

‘Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.’ – Orson Scott Card

‘A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.’ – Sarah Parcak

‘One time I happened to use the word ‘denigrate’ onstage, and it didn’t get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.’ – Bob Newhart

‘Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.’ – John Adams

‘Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing.’ – Ernest Gaines

‘Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.’ – Carol Burnett

‘I’ve never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton… and at the same time, no less! I’m not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.’ – Megan Hilty

‘All our words from loose using have lost their edge.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.’ – Reed Morano

‘We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.’ – Jane Fonda

‘The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.’ – Ursula K. Le Guin

‘The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.’ – Menander

‘Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.’ – Drake

‘Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.’ – Taylor Swift

‘Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don’t know what she’s going on about half the time!’ – Emma Watson

‘Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.’ – Pythagoras

‘I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.’ – B. F. Skinner

‘Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.’ – Ibrahim Hooper

‘Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.’ – Leonard Mlodinow

‘Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it – le mot juste – the exact right word in the exact right position.’ – Nancy Kress

‘Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Somehow, what’s in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.’ – Andy Stanley

‘We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.’ – Paul Tillich

”Me too’ was just two words; it’s two magic words that galvanised the world.’ – Tarana Burke

‘I don’t quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.’ – Idina Menzel

‘Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine – ‘Beauty is the splendor of Truth.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

‘Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man’s thinking or his writing.’ – Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.’ – Gore Vidal

‘I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.’ – Alan Turing

‘Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!’ – Stephen Sondheim

‘Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.’ – Roland Barthes

‘Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor’s words in speech or writing or design.’ – Filippo Brunelleschi

‘Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning – back to their roots.’ – Corita Kent

‘Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.’ – Woody Allen

‘A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side – which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.’ – Ray Dalio

‘Words are really beautiful, but they’re limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there’s nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game’s over.’ – Mary Schmich

‘The play is not in the words, it’s in you!’ – Stella Adler

‘They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.’ – Raymond Floyd

‘Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.’ – William Albert Allard

‘Either accept people for what they are, or don’t. So, in other words, man, if people don’t know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I’m a good person.’ – Ike Turner

‘Donald Trump, like many cult leaders, understands the power his words will have over the minds and actions of his followers… but few cult leaders have a pet media infrastructure.’ – Rick Wilson

‘Others do not define you – you define yourself through your words and actions.’ – Karen Handel

‘We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me – especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and ‘religious’ countries.’ – Richard Rohr

‘I’m attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.’ – Travis Scott

‘He doesn’t know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn’t know the meaning of most words.’ – Bobby Bowden

‘There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.’ – Olivia De Havilland

‘Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.’ – Marcel Marceau

‘It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?’ – Dwight L. Moody

‘I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.’ – Adriana Lima

‘Lying is done with words and also with silence.’ – Adrienne Rich

‘Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.’ – Johann Kaspar Lavater

‘A fool and his words are soon parted.’ – William Shenstone

‘Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘Whatever religion you believe in, if you take almighty’s name and follow his words obediently, you will be safe to an extent.’ – Diljit Dosanjh

‘The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say but how you live… You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.’ – Kurt Warner

‘This is what I want in heaven… words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.’ – Tina Turner

‘Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.’ – Paul Engle

‘Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.’ – Heather Watts

‘I’m a charming coward; I fight with words.’ – Carl Reiner

‘Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In other words, the tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.’ – Arthur Laffer

‘I’m a man of few words. I don’t really like talking.’ – Michael Essien

‘The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.’ – Dennis Potter

‘Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it – and keep people thinking.’ – Travis Fimmel

‘Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader’s imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.’ – Anthony Browne

‘I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I’d get locked in on them.’ – Jeff Kinney

‘Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.’ – Thomas Shadwell

‘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

‘Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.’ – James Newman

‘Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.’ – Anais Nin

‘These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.’ – Athanasius

‘I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.’ – Robert W. Service

‘Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.’ – Howard Gardner

‘The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.’ – Graham Swift

‘Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.’ – Emmanuel Jal

‘Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.’ – Bill Watterson

‘Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.’ – Alfred North Whitehead

‘No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can’t let people’s nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?’ – Elizabeth Berkley

‘The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.’ – Jean Paul

‘In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.’ – Jason Reynolds

‘In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.’ – Jacques Lacan

‘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

‘It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.’ – Richard P. Feynman

‘I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.’ – Xenophon

‘There’s a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘It’s technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what’s really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.’ – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

‘I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish – none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.’ – Carice van Houten

‘It is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.’ – Robert Southey

‘I used to want the words ‘She tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.” – Katherine Dunham

‘We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.’ – James Nicoll

‘You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he’s serving.’ – Merrick Garland

‘The subconscious doesn’t distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That’s the power of words.’ – India Arie

‘Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.’ – Ferdinand de Saussure

‘If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.’ – Philip Yancey

‘If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.’ – Alfred Korzybski

‘The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.’ – Robert South

‘Actions speak louder than words, and it’s no more true than with your kids.’ – Brad Pitt

‘I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.’ – Carmen Miranda

‘You can stroke people with words.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘I love the English language. Words have power.’ – John C. Bogle

‘My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.’ – James Joyce

‘November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson’s at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.’ – Deborah Sampson

‘I chucked my CA final exams to pursue modeling. My parents objected to this, but they soon came around. And after seeing my maiden movie Tum Bin, they were happy beyond words!’ – Priyanshu Chatterjee

‘However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? – Buddha’ – Buddha

‘Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.’ – Anaxagoras

‘A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.’ – Virat Kohli

‘Reggae is a very positive genre, it is surrounded by positive words, lyrics, people and it is known for that.’ – Koffee

‘I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.’ – Stieg Larsson

‘There’s a lot you can do without words.’ – Craig McCracken

‘Words are just words.’ – Luther Campbell

‘I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.’ – Bob Dylan

‘Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.’ – George Sand

‘Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.’ – Alice Miller

‘So the lover must struggle for words.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.’ – Parker Conrad

‘Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.’ – Bill Owens

‘My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.’ – William Ivey Long

‘The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.’ – Louis D. Brandeis

‘Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Words can’t describe how happy I’m feeling with the love I’m feeling from the fans, from the Mavs fans and my people in Georgia. They appreciate what I do.’ – Zaza Pachulia

‘It’s hard for me to put my feelings into words.’ – Joaquin Phoenix

‘According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don’t just happen by themselves.’ – Ray Comfort

‘There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘The first novel I wrote was a monster – clocking in at 180,000 words – but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called ‘The Gods First Make Mad.’ It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn’t let that put me off.’ – Wilbur Smith

‘Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can’t.’ – Sonita Alizadeh

‘I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you’re being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they’re not exactly right.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I don’t want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘The key to asking someone out is to not really ask. In other words, don’t feel your sentence needs to end with a question mark.’ – Matthew Hussey

‘I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words.’ – Kamal Haasan

‘The best cartoons have no words at all – just the image pops out.’ – Jeff MacNelly

‘Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal – we speak the same way as the groups we are part of. A great deal are also euphemistic, so it’s no surprise that a third of us are perplexed by their meanings and origins.’ – Susie Dent

‘After all, sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc.’ – Maurice Strong

‘One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.’ – Cher

‘It’s a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they’d have to be responsible for their words.’ – Robert Pattinson

‘If people want to be better writers, they can’t just read the blogs! You’ve got to look at something that’s outside this rushing world of evanescent words.’ – Camille Paglia

‘I have the words ‘love’ and ‘life’ on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.’ – James Arthur

‘Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.’ – Bobby Flay

‘The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.’ – Robin Marantz Henig

‘You can still say whatever you want to say on social media, but you have to be willing to stand by your words.’ – Candace Owens

‘A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.’ – William Congreve

‘Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system – the protocol that allows us to type email addresses and website names to initiate communication. DNS enables our words to set in motion a chain of connections between servers, which in turn delivers the results we desire.’ – Franklin Foer

‘My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.’ – Morgan Wallen

‘It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘For me, if I saw my favorite artist in the store, I would probably just tell them three words and walk away.’ – Lil Peep

‘Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.’ – Thomas Hardy

‘There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don’t use the third category.’ – John Grisham

‘I have no words for my reality.’ – Max Frisch

‘Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.’ – Ashraf Ghani

‘I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.’ – Jon Scieszka

‘Shakespeare’s taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.’ – Zoe Wanamaker

‘The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.’ – James Harrington

‘What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.’ – Mark Twain

‘There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.’ – Natalie Clifford Barney

”Liquid Swords’ just represents a sharp tongue, sharp words.’ – Gza

‘After a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light in the words of the popular song the ‘Age of Aquarius,’ the time of the mind’s true liberation.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.’ – Timothy Morton

‘It isn’t about the words you say. It’s about the energetic message you send.’ – Pete Carroll

‘All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘You don’t want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else’s words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you’re writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.’ – Gayle Lynds

‘A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It’s sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.’ – Yo-Yo Ma

‘There are no words to describe the Clasico. It is totally different and the most important game in the world.’ – Sergio Ramos

‘Dance is a universal language which allows you to express yourself without words and I think that is why everyone is so enamoured by dance.’ – Sanjeeda Sheikh

‘Big words seldom accompany good deeds.’ – Charlotte Whitton

‘Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.’ – Milan Kundera

‘The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be, ‘Yes.’ And ‘Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?’ My answer to that would be, ‘No.” – Aaron Copland

‘Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.’ – MF Doom

‘When I was growing up, it was the religious conservatives that had the moral panic about music and swear words.’ – Tim Pool

‘We are trying to capture the widest possible audience all around the world. In other words, we are trying to capture the people who are even beyond the gaming population.’ – Satoru Iwata

‘Donald learned from a very young age that in order to survive in my family, he needed to be what my grandfather referred to as a killer, you know, somebody who had no weaknesses – in other words, kindness, generosity, sensitivity. So I think, over time, those qualities were systematically drilled out of Donald by his dad.’ – Mary L. Trump

‘Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.’ – Dinah Maria Mulock

‘I am a man of few words, but many riddles.’ – Frank Gorshin

‘The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.’ – Pat Conroy

‘In love there are two things – bodies and words.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘A number of party… members lack proper discipline, are plagued by individualism, selfishness and opportunism. This gives rise to some individuals’ words not matching their deeds, not adhering to party rules and regulations and having no proper mechanisms for disciplining those who make mistakes.’ – Nguyen Phu Trong

‘The best of us must sometimes eat our words.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.’ – Saint Patrick

‘There’s a lot of buzz words in the business world these days – Design thinking, innovation, fast-failure, disruption, cross-functional leadership – and at the heart of every one of these concepts is the ability for people to make small moves forward, learn, iterate.’ – Mel Robbins

‘There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.’ – Jared Padalecki

‘Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you’re trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, ‘You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.” – Bill Burr

‘People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.’ – Lionel Richie

‘God’s words first… obey God’s law first before considering the laws of man.’ – Manny Pacquiao

‘I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.’ – John Calvin

‘A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.’ – Henry Moore

‘It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so that, in effect, you have a sustained memory of something that never happened to you.’ – Samuel R. Delany

‘There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old saw puts it, is that the future lies ahead.’ – Edgar Fiedler

‘A chair’s function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That’s why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.’ – Evan Davis

‘The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.’ – Paul Valery

‘Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.’ – Stone Gossard

‘The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.’ – Ellen G. White

‘I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.’ – James A. Michener

‘Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don’t care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that’s my opinion but because I think it’s actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It’s that simple.’ – Ryan Tedder

‘I go to schools in L.A., and I teach lessons. I run with the girls and teach them things about bullying and gossip. For instance, we’d play things like telephone, where you can actually see how words get twisted.’ – Peyton List

‘Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.’ – Robert Wilson

‘Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘My awkward phase can be summed up in three words: Clear. Braces. College.’ – Chrishell Stause

‘To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.’ – Truman Capote

‘This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘It is nice to hear some positive words from the manager.’ – Chris Smalling

‘I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.’ – Glenn Beck

‘Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life… That’s a superpower I’ve been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.’ – Lin-Manuel Miranda

‘Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.’ – Gwendolyn Brooks

‘We are all in Christ’s energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so that’s what I do.’ – Jon Anderson

‘It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.’ – Chief Joseph

‘Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.’ – Brian Harris

‘There are two words for everything.’ – E. V. Lucas

‘For years, I’ve admired wrist tattoos, but I was always afraid that they would hurt – I’m kind of a weenie about pain. In fact, it’s why I wear so many bracelets on my left wrist. The bracelets represented the words or phrases I’d want to get tattooed but didn’t have the courage to.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘You don’t make a poem with ideas, but with words.’ – Stephane Mallarme

‘Words are like untying a corset – you can move into this great space with them.’ – Ali Smith

‘When I was starting to write, I was fascinated with ‘Knuffle Bunny’ by Mo Willems. I remember taking it home and typing it out, trying to figure out how it worked. It’s just a classic, with dauntingly few words.’ – Kate DiCamillo

‘It’s fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you’ but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I’ll have a cup of coffee.” – Robert D. Hare

‘Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.’ – Mary Oliver

‘So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.’ – George Berkeley

‘In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.’ – Judy Garland

‘I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me – art is the way human beings express what we can’t say in words.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘The words of truth are simple.’ – Aeschylus

‘I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.’ – Meryl Streep

‘We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.’ – Mary McCarthy

‘I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, ‘We’ll use and exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West,’ that concerns me.’ – Michael McCaul

‘All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.’ – Amy Lowell

‘An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it’s all of a piece.’ – Bat for Lashes

‘Accusations like conspiracy theories, words like disinformation and misinformation, these aren’t words that are meant to guide you as to how much trust you should place in the story. These are weapons used to destroy opposition and you already know that when it comes to debate, disagreement or even election outcomes.’ – Will Cain

‘I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.’ – Jose Rizal

‘Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.’ – Charles Reade

‘It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.’ – Rebecca Harding Davis

‘Visuals are compelling, but sometimes the only way to get your point of view and purpose across is through words. Great copy can be embedded in any medium, any technology.’ – David Droga

‘My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, ‘If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?’ and he answered me with two words: ‘A pencil.’ Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.’ – Adam Braun

‘When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.’ – William Shakespeare

‘To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan… In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.’ – Joseph Brodsky

‘If you write a blog post, you’ve got something to say; you’re not just creating words and synonyms. We’d like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.’ – Edith Stein

‘We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.’ – Michelle Obama

‘First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It’s astonishing. It pours out of him.’ – Stephen Greenblatt

‘Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.’ – Tom Malinowski

‘I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone’s place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.’ – Karen Civil

‘I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.’ – Rachel Corrie

‘I love picture books – with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.’ – Mini Grey

‘One false word, one extra word, and somebody’s thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you’re going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.’ – Patricia Marx

‘It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.’ – George Eliot

‘When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the marquee, and it was an ‘order from Al Capone,’ Mr. Glaser looked this cat straight in the face and told him these words: ‘I think that Louis Armstrong is the world’s greatest, and this is my place, and I defy anybody to take his name down from there.” – Louis Armstrong

‘Personally, I don’t choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That’s between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.’ – Erykah Badu

‘There’s almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.’ – Peter Weir

‘If I had to describe myself, I wouldn’t use words like ‘hero.’ I wouldn’t use ‘patriot,’ and I wouldn’t use ‘traitor.’ I’d say I’m an American and I’m a citizen, just like everyone else.’ – Edward Snowden

‘What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.’ – John Cameron

‘Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.’ – Robert Frost

‘There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.’ – Josh Billings

‘How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.’ – Maurice Maeterlinck

‘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.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it’s just not the ideas that come out of your head. You need to have specifics and 80,000 words.’ – James Murray

‘Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that’s just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it’s like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!’ – Frederick William Faber

‘You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.’ – Hippocrates

‘Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn’t yet know how to say: ‘I’m lonely, in pain, frightened’ – distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child’s world: the parent.’ – Alain de Botton

‘If they give you good words to say, and you don’t get in the way of them, you’ll be OK.’ – Carol Kane

‘You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.’ – Ted Cruz

‘Donald Trump may occasionally say things that are controversial or even objectionable to some, but those are words.’ – Tom Cotton

‘In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.’ – Plutarch

‘If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it’s something like 35 years or younger. In other words… success is no indication of longevity.’ – Simon Sinek

‘Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.’ – John Langdon

‘Knowing how to speak to people with the right words at the right time, that’s immensely powerful.’ – Angelos Postecoglou

‘Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they’re not believable, they don’t strike a chord and they’re not said convincingly, it’s not a great song.’ – Sam Phillips

‘Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘We’re homebodies. I’ve gotten to see my kids’ first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.’ – Larry the Cable Guy

‘I definitely am the best rapper alive, mark my words.’ – DaBaby

‘It’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.’ – Eminem

‘We don’t communicate in full sentences anyway. We don’t need all those words.’ – Shepard Smith

‘Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated – and understood – without conscious thought.’ – Leonard Mlodinow

‘A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.’ – Robert Greene

‘Three simple words – freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.’ – Charles Kennedy

‘Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.’ – Phyllis McGinley

‘I’m at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.’ – Talib Kweli

‘I think it’s like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we’re free to pretty much do what we want.’ – Jon Fishman

‘People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified – in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they’ve never realized that the word ‘resurrection’ simply didn’t mean that.’ – N. T. Wright

‘I like to show my ability on the field. I’m not one to show off with words. I’m really looking forward to the chance. I’m a calm goalkeeper, and above all, I’ve got a real desire to win. When I get on the pitch, I give everything for the team, everything for the shirt.’ – Alisson

‘My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.’ – Madam C. J. Walker

‘Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.’ – Hrithik Roshan

‘In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘There are few words in the music business or in art that I’ll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like ‘legend’ or ‘genius’, ‘he’s a pioneer’ and all of that.’ – Stanley Clarke

‘It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.’ – Pythagoras

‘I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘I understand why people went nuts for ‘The Artist.’ We use words so much, it’s nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone – or something – is thinking or feeling.’ – Andy Serkis

‘Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.’ – Merce Cunningham

‘We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.’ – James D. Houston

‘My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.’ – Yoko Ono

‘The words of truth are always paradoxical.’ – Lao Tzu

‘In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.’ – Harold S. Geneen

‘He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.’ – Confucius

‘If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don’t manage nearly that… but I have published slightly too much recently.’ – A. N. Wilson

‘But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.’ – Anne McCaffrey

‘Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.’ – Unknown

‘When I’m writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.’ – John Scalzi

‘My father died. No one from this industry came to offer condolences to my house. No one offered few words to console me. Why should I continue in this cruel film world? I am discontinuing my acting career.’ – Suresh Gopi

‘It’s only words… unless they’re true.’ – David Mamet

‘I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it’s words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.’ – Geraldine Brooks

‘I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.’ – Theodore Bikel

‘Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like ‘Chicago’ is a very musical sounding name.’ – Tom Waits

‘A moment’s thinking is an hour in words.’ – Thomas Hood

‘It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.’ – Samuel Alexander

‘Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything needs to be hyped to get noticed. It means that some of our greatest words are losing their power.’ – Susie Dent

‘If you asked my kids to describe me, they’d go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson’s. And honestly, I don’t think about it that much either. I talk about it because it’s there, but it’s not my totality.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.’ – John Steinbeck

‘As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.’ – Carol W. Greider

‘When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.’ – Luigi Pirandello

‘With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest.’ – Stephen Ambrose

‘Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.’ – Jean Philippe Rameau

‘Character and fate are two words for the same thing.’ – Novalis

‘If you’re impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you’re doing ‘Bus waiting meditation.’ If you’re standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you’re doing ‘Waiting in line meditation.’ Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.’ – Gretchen Rubin

‘The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he’s the guy that made that sound, he’s the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don’t have a band, you know.’ – Bruce Springsteen

‘To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.’ – Edith Piaf

‘The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.’ – Deborah Tannen

‘The modern artist… is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.’ – Jackson Pollock

‘My parents always wanted me to do the right thing. My mom, I think her exact words were, ‘You’re not a chicken in the coop playing in the scraps, you’re an eagle.’ I was like, ‘Oh, OK… ‘ But really, I’ve used that throughout my life.’ – J. J. Redick

‘Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: ‘A truck!” – Emo Philips

‘Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.’ – Walt Whitman

‘I’m happy that I know how to speak ‘Southern.’ I spent a lot of time in Alabama throughout my life. I even lived there for part of junior high and high school, so I learned the true beauty and mastery of the Southern dialect. ‘Y’all’ is one of the greatest and most useful words ever invented.’ – W. Kamau Bell

‘Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.’ – Stuart Chase

‘I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.’ – Temple Grandin

‘The two most important words in marriage for me are ‘yes, dear.’ – Eric Close’ – Eric Close

‘I think, in a way, I invented the term ‘fight club’ and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I’ve been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.’ – Homer

‘So the language of musical harmony is an absolutely extraordinary one. It’s a way of navigating one’s emotional frameworks, but without the need to put things into words, and I think that, as with many other languages, it doesn’t matter how much you know about a language.’ – Jacob Collier

‘Lots of people want to have written; they don’t want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.’ – Elizabeth George

‘You can’t fix a problem if you don’t have the words to describe it. You can’t even think about it clearly.’ – Tucker Carlson

‘I’m supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.’ – Alison Tyler

‘My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It’s like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster than you could with words. It’s like a direct line of instantaneous communication where you don’t have to wait for the end.’ – Allan Holdsworth

‘There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.’ – Mads Mikkelsen

‘Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.’ – Marguerite Duras

‘I don’t want to say too many words about the magic of the Cube, because it’s basically a mystery. It’s like the Mona Lisa smile. It’s both complex and very simple at the same time. And, well, people like it. Even today.’ – Erno Rubik

‘I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the ’80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I’d be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.’ – George Strait

‘Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.’ – E. M. Forster

‘All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.’ – Bernard Pivot

‘My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.’ – William Strunk, Jr.

‘Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.’ – Theodor Mommsen

‘The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.’ – George Orwell

‘Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.’ – Jane Austen

‘Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose… anything goes.’ – Cole Porter

‘I never let anyone lose their self-respect and make them wait in my office, or hurt them with my words, thoughts or actions. I give my e-mail address to anyone who seeks me out. I ask them to send me their work, and if I like it, I give them an opportunity.’ – D. Imman

‘The seed for my novel ‘Half Brother’ was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn’t germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.’ – Kenneth Oppel

‘When I wrote ‘The Giver,’ it contained no so-called ‘bad words.’ It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of ‘The Giver’; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.’ – Lois Lowry

‘Let deeds match words.’ – Plautus

‘Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding a word of what they hear. They are trying to get hold of words, and they often demonstrate this fact by repeating joyously some word which they have been able to grasp.’ – Maria Montessori

‘The written word can be powerful and beautiful – but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.’ – Saoirse Ronan

‘The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us. In other words, they understand the relationship between the press and leaders.’ – Connie Chung

‘Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.’ – Malcolm de Chazal

‘All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional – what a cranky guy would call correct – grammar.’ – Richard Corliss

‘Seven Words’ is a wanderer’s tale, a well-worn subgenre in the tradition of farewell songs. The tune itself is trying to evoke the familiar act of leaving somebody in order to save them, or continue seeking.’ – Weyes Blood

‘A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.’ – Paul Muni

‘A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.’ – Alan Perlis

‘All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.’ – Samuel Beckett

‘It’s impossible to put into words. When you see that trophy coming towards you in the hands of the officials… the gold becomes more gold, becomes more shiny than you ever thought. You feel the best in the world. I have no other way to put it into words.’ – Cafu

‘I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don’t know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.’ – Arnold Schoenberg

‘The three most dreaded words in the English language are ‘negative cash flow’.’ – David Tang

‘I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.’ – Mark Batterson

‘Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.’ – Paul Auster

‘Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words – usually lousy ones – for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.’ – Amy Waldman

‘God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.’ – Joel Osteen

‘The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave – caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition – cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.’ – Stacey Abrams

‘Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said ‘Loud, Louder, and Loudest’!’ – Anastacia

‘Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.’ – John Drinkwater

‘In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.’ – Alexander Pope

‘At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.’ – John Ortberg

‘A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.’ – Thomas Chandler Haliburton

‘You can never draw enough or read enough – reading about architecture, in other words.’ – Michael Graves

‘The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.’ – Jay Samit

‘If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you’re going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.’ – Russell Simmons

‘Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.’ – Nancy Duarte

‘We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I’ll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.’ – Tyler Joseph

‘At my house, it’s an, ‘If dad says it, you can say it’ kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.’ – A.J. Styles

‘People don’t realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.’ – Neil Peart

‘Donald Trump is not a 71-year-old white man. He is an Indian uncle. He wears suits that don’t fit; he can’t speak English properly. He works with his idiotic sons; he hates women but loves his daughter. He makes up words when he gets angry. He is an Indian uncle.’ – Hasan Minhaj

‘One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.’ – Voltaire

‘All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!” – John F. Kennedy

‘The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.’ – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

‘Everybody asks, ‘What does ‘Humans of New York’ mean?’ and I always say that I try to avoid putting any kind of message in the work even if it is a positive or optimistic message. The moment you do that, you’re looking for certain people and words that fit into the world view you are trying to show, and it becomes preachy.’ – Brandon Stanton

‘He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘I’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.’ – John Coltrane

‘And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.’ – Venerable Bede

‘The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.’ – Storm Jameson

‘Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one’s own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.’ – Virginia Euwer Wolff

‘Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as ‘and’ and ‘what,’ or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as ‘hello.” – David Crystal

‘I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.’ – Barbara Kruger

‘You can’t be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.’ – Peter Handke

‘Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we’re dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.’ – Paul Provenza

‘When you act a scene with Sidney Poitier, he listens intently to every word you say. You can feel your words hit him. He makes the scene utterly real.’ – Judy Geeson

‘We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.’ – William J. Brennan, Jr.

‘Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it’s all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it’s not going to diminish.’ – Ismail Merchant

‘A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.’ – Richard Rodgers

‘I just see myself as someone who has a bit of a way with words, basically.’ – Tim Minchin

‘Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.’ – John McAfee

‘Freeing oneself from words is liberation.’ – Bodhidharma

‘In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn’t write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.’ – Louis Dudek

‘Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.’ – Margaret Cho

‘The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.’ – Doris Humphrey

‘There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.’ – Sophocles

‘I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.’ – Mattie Stepanek

‘Is E.T. out there? Well, I work at the SETI Institute. That’s almost my name. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In other words, I look for aliens, and when I tell people that at a cocktail party, they usually look at me with a mildly incredulous look on their face. I try to keep my own face somewhat dispassionate.’ – Seth Shostak

‘Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can’t see what’s underneath.’ – William Collins

‘There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. Every day, we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that’s made all the difference.’ – Drew Houston

‘Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.’ – Steven Bochco

‘The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words – without locks, open on my shelves.’ – Terry Tempest Williams

‘I’m not gonna be like, ‘Farewell tour!’ then come back. Never say those words to fans – you have to come back if you say that.’ – Shawn Crahan

‘Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.’ – John Gerzema

‘I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone’s attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.’ – Alan Zweibel

”Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,’ if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.’ – Jake Epstein

‘Racism itself is difficult to measure. We can measure hate crimes – which are absolutely an indicator. We can measure reports of discrimination. We can measure the number of times hateful words are being used across the Internet. Those things all help us measure racism, but it can sometimes be nebulous.’ – Shaun King

‘Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words… ‘thank you for your service.’ ‘Stars Earn Stripes’ is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.’ – Mark Burnett

‘It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.’ – Gherman Titov

‘No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.’ – Dorothy Fields

‘When ideas fail, words come in very handy.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.’ – Iggy Azalea

‘All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.’ – Albert Einstein

‘I feel like Eurovision is a parallel dimension. It reminds me of ‘Dance Fever’ and ‘Solid Gold’ when I was a kid. Then when you hear these songs sung in English by someone who may or may not understand the words, the unique awesomeness hits you.’ – Seamus Dever

‘Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.’ – Carol Shields

‘I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I’m on to another thought. And what comes out wasn’t what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.’ – Sushant Singh Rajput

‘I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.’ – Carmen Laforet

‘Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.’ – George Steiner

‘As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.’ – Gore Vidal

‘I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love.’ – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

‘So looking at the planet from this perspective – to see the Earth and these beautiful land masses and oceans without lines or words drawn on them – it just heightens an awareness that the planet needs protection, and human life needs protection, and we are the ones who have to protect it.’ – Victor J. Glover

‘You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you’re arguing is because you’re using different words.’ – S. I. Hayakawa

‘Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.’ – Eileen Caddy

‘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.’ – RaeLynn

‘Words have not only a definition… but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.’ – Mary Oliver

‘Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘I miss singing every day. I can’t sing anymore. My voice doesn’t work. I have Parkinson’s disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me.’ – Linda Ronstadt

‘A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.’ – Ansel Adams

‘True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else – not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.’ – Julian Baggini

‘Swavey is the movement. Three words… It’s Unique, it’s true, and it’s yourself. It’s a very unique thing: it’s true to yourself, and it’s all about you just being yourself.’ – Tory Lanez

‘Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.’ – Bob Ehrlich

‘Eating words has never given me indigestion.’ – Winston Churchill

‘I understand the power of words and ideas as I get older and as I become more responsible as a stand-up. I think the media can really help by changing that syntax and vernacular.’ – Omid Djalili

‘Writing can be a very solitary business. It’s you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.’ – Paul Kane

‘All our words and acts are passing in review before God.’ – Ellen G. White

‘In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just – I hate that I wrote that.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘I love British cursing – the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.’ – Christopher Moore

‘As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.’ – James McCloughan

‘Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.’ – Mark Helprin

‘Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.’ – Mo Udall

‘The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.’ – Paul J. Meyer

‘The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.’ – Taylor Swift

‘I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi… in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.’ – Ron Carlson

‘And I’m a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.’ – Shelby Foote

‘It’s a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.’ – Travis Fimmel

‘We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community’s vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.’ – Audre Lorde

‘Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture’s primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They’re immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.’ – Caroline Knapp

‘Being in somebody else’s thing and saying their words and not having any right to change it – I don’t know how I’d deal with that. I’d like to think I could do it, but I just know I’ve got a dead particular taste.’ – Limmy

‘America once used the words ‘treason’ and ‘traitors’ only in cases of actual betrayal of our nation’s most vital secrets or interests.’ – Rick Wilson

‘I’m just terrible. At talking. With words.’ – Richard Ayoade

‘Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.’ – Pope Francis

‘Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Silence is more eloquent than words.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.’ – William Shakespeare

‘What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.’ – Antonio Porchia

‘We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.’ – Jaleel White

‘The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don’t need any fingers.’ – Larry Flynt

‘The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.’ – Dylan Thomas

‘I am quite quiet: I don’t feel as though I have to express myself with words too often. Maybe I should do more.’ – Sean Bean

‘There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.’ – Louis Gossett, Jr.

‘To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.’ – Wong Kar-wai

‘Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.’ – Frances Hesselbein

‘I myself have been the victim of some absolutely horrific speech throughout the years; I know how bad it can make you feel – and yet, I still believe firmly that no words directed at me could ever feel worse than having to worry about losing my right to use my own.’ – Kat Timpf

‘I think it’s such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn’t really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.’ – Sabrina Carpenter

‘Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.’ – Buddha

‘It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘He that hath knowledge spareth his words.’ – Francis Bacon

‘A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.’ – Brandon Lee

‘I see no reason why the artistic world can’t absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can’t we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?’ – William S. Burroughs

‘A lot of what people are calling ‘artificial intelligence’ is really data analytics – in other words, business as usual. If the hype leaves you asking ‘What is A.I., really?,’ don’t worry, you’re not alone.’ – Om Malik

‘My words are my bullets.’ – John Lydon

‘The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.’ – Lea Salonga

‘When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.’ – John Bunyan

‘I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There’s one Bon Iver song called ‘Blood Bank’ that is more representative of an older lineage of songs, which I like and I sort of miss. But it just doesn’t happen anymore for me.’ – Justin Vernon

‘The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia’s hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves.’ – Katharine Viner

‘I won’t go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me ‘E.T.’ and ‘Chariots of Fire’ instead. That’s entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.’ – Ginger Rogers

‘Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.’ – Joseph Joubert

‘Words are but the signs of ideas.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.’ – William Brewster

‘When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.’ – Ravi Zacharias

‘Human touch is comforting, it offers reassurance and it communicates more than words could ever do.’ – Ulrika Jonsson

‘Actions speak louder than words, and the best way to set an example is to just go out and do a good job.’ – Mena Massoud

‘I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘The sweetest two words are ‘next time.’ The sourest word is ‘if.” – Chi Chi Rodriguez

‘Asceticism doesn’t lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn’t lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.’ – Guru Nanak

‘Let’s put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.’ – Eric Carle

‘I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.’ – Jean Rostand

‘All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.’ – Joe Bob Briggs

‘The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I’ve known. I’m always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.’ – Jeff Buckley

‘In other words, if you – the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.’ – Richard Attenborough

‘When listening to politicians, distinguish certain words. Look out for the expansive use of ‘terrorism’ and ‘extremism.’ Be alive to the fatal notions of ‘exception’ and ’emergency.’ Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.’ – Timothy D. Snyder

‘A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.’ – Peter Sellers

‘Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.’ – Piet Mondrian

‘I thought I was attractive when I shot ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’ Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. In other words, they labeled me with words like overweight, unattractive, unappealing.’ – Nia Vardalos

‘In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can’t learn well that way don’t have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher’s teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.’ – Robert Sternberg

‘There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of ‘law,’ but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one’s neck of the woods.’ – Simon Sebag Montefiore

‘Words derive their power from the original word.’ – Meister Eckhart

‘To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn’t do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft.’ – Chuck Noll

‘I’d like to play a guy who doesn’t think so much. I’d like a character whose words come out before he thinks about it. I want a character who is just kind of dumb in that way. A guy who doesn’t have too many dangerous, devious ideas. It would be fun to play a role like that.’ – Wes Bentley

‘Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.’ – Mary Hunter Austin

‘Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.’ – Victor Hugo

‘People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you’re being secretly photographed, that’s not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.’ – Colin Firth

‘I’m the only instrument that’s got the words, so I’ve got to be able to get that across.’ – Rosemary Clooney

‘As dialect began to be collected in the late 19th century, such words as Yorkshire’s ‘gobslotch’ emerged, revealing the burgeoning association between gluttony and stupidity.’ – Susie Dent

‘Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘I don’t think I ever really knew the right words to ‘Hava Nagilah,’ which isn’t great for a Jewish singer.’ – Idina Menzel

‘When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you’re speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you’re speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.’ – Paul Dano

‘Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.’ – Walter Bagehot

‘Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each word has its unique place in the peerage of words, and he would not use a word out of place any sooner than he would thrust an ape into a captain’s saddle.’ – Edwin Markham

‘In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.’ – Jean Piaget

‘There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops’ hearts, not just their heads.’ – Jim Mattis

‘Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.’ – Mark Twain

‘From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.’ – Eyvind Johnson

‘The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active – in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.’ – Gary Zukav

‘Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don’t even want to try. I don’t agree with that approach.’ – Herman Cain

‘Chhath is made up of two Hindi words – ‘Chah,’ indicating six stages and ‘Hath’ representing the act of austerity. The vratti observing this strict fast is believed to acquire solar energy in six different stages. It is one of the most scientific puja known to mankind and offers a host of health benefits.’ – Amrapali Gupta

‘As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough – I wrote faster than I would write a letter – two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘We have these words ‘space’ and ‘time,’ but you can’t touch them. They’re not objects, they’re not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.’ – Robert Lanza

‘It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.’ – Nikki Grimes

‘A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.’ – Alicia Keys

‘Music expresses what cannot be put into words I like to think, and I think the band makes a good go at it.’ – Steven Tyler

‘We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it’s virtually impossible to use words to explain music.’ – Synyster Gates

‘The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It’s very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.’ – Tony Benn

‘I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page.’ – Sue Miller

‘Deed, not words shall speak me.’ – John Fletcher

‘What my mom’s legacy is representative of is beyond words.’ – Quincy Brown

‘Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.’ – Bono

‘The most beautiful words in the English language are ‘not guilty’.’ – Maxim Gorky

‘I put the words down and push them a bit.’ – Evelyn Waugh

‘All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.’ – Robert Southey

‘When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.’ – Jane Yolen

‘Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.’ – Theocritus

‘Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn’t mean that, A, they don’t have to kill it on the performance, and, B, they don’t have to have the ear for what’s tight and what’s not, which is something a lot of people don’t have.’ – Mac Miller

‘Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what’s around you.’ – Lucy Dacus

‘I’ll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!’ – Jose Mujica

‘I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people’s reading habits.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.’ – Vladimir Nabokov

‘Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?’ – Marcel Marceau

‘Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.’ – James Joyce

‘If words don’t have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they’re just words.’ – Charlotte Rampling

‘For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.’ – Ken Follett

‘Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.’ – Boots Riley

‘When it comes to personal communication, words are all we’ve got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human beings.’ – Gyles Brandreth

‘I was really desperate. I don’t know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn’t want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn’t mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.’ – Shannon Lucid

‘To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can’t be said so well with words.’ – David Lynch

‘Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the vocabulary you use but the intention behind it. That’s something even humans have difficulty doing, let alone a robot.’ – Grant Imahara

‘Truth is in things, and not in words.’ – Herman Melville

‘The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.’ – Pythagoras

‘Words have a longevity that I do not have.’ – Paul Kalanithi

‘Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.’ – Aeschylus

‘The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.’ – George Eliot

‘Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.’ – Dan Quayle

‘Use the word ‘zeitgeist’ as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don’t really know their definitions: ‘zeitgeist,’ ‘bildungsroman,’ ‘doppelganger’ – better yet, anything Latin. But avoid ‘paradigm.’ It’s so 1994. If you say the word ‘paradigm,’ everybody knows you’re a poser.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘It’s very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that’s not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It’s a gut feeling.’ – Steven Wright

‘I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.’ – Toni Morrison

‘It was a weird reaction to ‘Batman Returns,’ because half the people thought it was lighter than the first one, and half the people thought it was darker. I think the studio just thought it was too weird – they wanted to go with something more child- or family-friendly. In other words, they didn’t want me to do another one.’ – Tim Burton

‘I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Don’t use your words to describe your reality. Use your words to create your desired reality.’ – Bo Sanchez

‘Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.’ – Ferdinand de Saussure

‘There’s still a lot I’m angry about, a lot of human behaviour that’s appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.’ – Neil Peart

‘Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.’ – Robert Greene

‘Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I think ‘lunch’ is one of the funniest words in the world.’ – Stephen Sondheim

‘Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.’ – Lao Tzu

‘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

‘The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.’ – J. K. Rowling

‘I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn’t know.’ – Carrie Fisher

‘I consider myself kind of a reporter – one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.’ – Mary Oliver

‘If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something – for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars – I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘Omit needless words.’ – William Strunk, Jr.

‘I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.’ – Geraldine Brooks

‘Words without thoughts never to heaven go.’ – William Shakespeare

‘Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.’ – John Lydon

‘Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you’d need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film – and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!’ – Mini Grey

‘Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.’ – Learned Hand

‘I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.’ – Jane Goodall

‘The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It’s very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.’ – Bryan Ferry

‘It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech.’ – Maria Montessori

‘Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.’ – Michelle Obama

‘Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another? – James D. Houston’ – James D. Houston

‘Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was ‘jejune’ and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?’ – Thomas Sowell

‘Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.’ – Leonard Mlodinow

‘I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.’ – Taylor Swift

‘New words can spread like wildfire thanks to social media – you only have to look at ‘mansplaining’ and ‘milkshake duck’ to see language evolution at work – so why not old ones too?’ – Susie Dent

‘Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.’ – Frederick William Faber

‘It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Words do not pay for my dead people.’ – Chief Joseph

‘The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.’ – Winston Churchill

‘The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.’ – Sophocles

‘Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?’ – Aeschylus

‘I love words.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn’t know. It was something I always did.’ – Carrie Fisher