Words Quotes

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

The stitch of a book is its words.

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.

When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.