Words Quotes

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

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.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

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.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

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

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

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.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.