Words Quotes

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.