Words Quotes

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Actions lie louder than words.

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.

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.

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

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.