Words Quotes

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.