Words Quotes

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards shows for years and it's been hilarious. Everyone is always asking me what the bleeped-out parts are saying.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.