Words Quotes

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

We came up with three core touchy feely words.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

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