Quotes about words

Scared of words? I don't see why anybody ought to fear words. Words are toolsyou have to know how to use them to get donethe job you want to get done. Can't do the workif you're scared of the work.

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.

There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. It's just a feeling, I guess - something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you.

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. In other words, they labeled me with words like overweight, unattractive, unappealing.

I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

Maybe it wasn't meant for me to stand on my feet maybe I'm one of those who were born with wings and the destiny to fly.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

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!'

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

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

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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.

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

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

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry I think I uncover the problems.

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.

Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

Words of love, are works of love.

So the lover must struggle for words.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives words and ideas change the world.

WORDS HAVE NO EXPIRATION DATE YOU CAN EAT THEM WHENEVER YOU WANT.SO BE SURE TO MAKE EM' YUMMY!

GOD SAYS YOU'LL NEVER LOSE A FIGHT THAT WASN'T FIXED!#HOPENATION

Be careful what you say and do around a writer your words and actions may become material.

I believe writing is a gift God gave us to share His thoughts poured out upon us! Writing is a talent needing care and comfort open up and let the Lord inspire you!

She liked the words they satisfied her famine for phrases.

I reserve the right to not to be addressed...at all my thoughts should not be interrupted with your words.

I like playing around with the words I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

Words are seeds you are what you've heard

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips.

There were two and only two messages that could have been comprehended by what he said.But neither of them was soothing neither of them was a lie.

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.

People don't follow words they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.

Sometimes you don't need words to feel better you just need the nearness of your dog.

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express list of stories.

The world of numbers and words is odd. A number is the only word that doesn’t lie and words can be very deceitful they create the illusion that a large number hides a great word.

Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression they exist where a word has never intruded.

Words are just words a book never harmed anyone by itself.

Give sorrow words the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

I am not imposed upon by fine words I can see what actions mean.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things the word about being.

Her words were like tinfoil they shone and they covered things up.

No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately.