Words Quotes

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.