Words Quotes

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

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.