Words Quotes

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

I find words really hard.

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

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

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.

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

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.

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

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

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.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.

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.