Words Quotes

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips.

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

The temple of art is built in words.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.