Words Quotes · Page 141

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

— Joseph Campbell

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

— Neil Gaiman

When I write a song, I hear the music and words at the same time - one suggests the form of the…

— Leslie Bricusse

The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

— Chris Sacca

“Where there is logic there love can not exist Where there is love, there logic can not exist”

— Srinivart

“...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...”

— John Geddes

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

— John Bunyan

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

— Hilda Doolittle

“The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

I can only build if I tear the walls down even if it breaks me I wont let it make me frown…

— Micheal Larsen

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new…

— Steve Berry

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for…

— Frank Luntz

There are words I don't want to say in my music. Some will say: 'Don't forget me.' I prefer: 'Always remember me.'…

— Redfoo

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else…

— Sean Covey

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.

— Richard Flanagan

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and…

— Thomas Southerne

Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other…

— N. T. Wright

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist…

— Simon Sinek

My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words,…

— Allan Holdsworth

Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

“Daniel." He looked up. "El-la.I was wondering if you'd catch me." He offered me a cigarette. I gave him a shame-on-you look;he…

— Melissa Jensen

My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four…

— Derrick Jensen

I don't think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make…

— Michael Chiesa

There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.

— Alice Oswald

It's hard for me to lie, I'd stumble with my words if I tried to lie.

— Heart Evangelista

“Sometimes her words sliced down on his before they had even reached his mouth.”

— Rachel Joyce

“Sorry, it's all those crossword puzzles I do. I love words...”

— Dakota Cassidy

“If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

— Rory Bremner

Promises are just words that mean nothing with no action.

— IlimaM

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

— Henri Nouwen

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

— Thomas Harrison

“I don’t believe there has ever been a more terrible weapon in this world than the word they. ”

— Cebo Campbell

“you have to find the words to make it sound important”

— Dmitry Dyatlov

The words you speak today could be the words you eat tomorrow. You better make them sweet!

— Nishan Panwar

Choose your words carefully when angry …once they are spoken they can't be taken back.

— Anonymous

“Who am I?" My first spoken words. "No one," she said. "Nosoul.”

— Jodi Meadows

Who cannot understand your silence, cannot understand your words!

— Anonymous

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

— Aristotle