Words Quotes

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

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.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

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.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

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.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Words are the small change of thought.

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

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.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

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.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.