Words Quotes

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

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.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

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.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words of love, are works of love.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.