Words Quotes

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Either Mitt Romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.

I have those dreams that you can't put into words.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

I talk by playing, not by words.

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.