Words Quotes

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

Be not a slave of words.

Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.