Words Quotes

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

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.