Words Quotes

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

Good words will not give me back my children.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

Words are but the signs of ideas.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

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

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.