Words Quotes

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of 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.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.