Words Quotes

You can stroke people with words.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between what people say and what they do. People might tell you they are excited about your new product, but when they are in a buying situation their behaviour might be totally different.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said 'Loud, Louder, and Loudest'!

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.