Words Quotes · Page 78

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

— Charles Simic

Be careful of the words you speak. It may be just words but sometimes it also hurts.

— Mhaj Porras

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

— Ali Smith

“that's what I wanted: words made of that: language / that could bend light.”

— Jan Zwicky

Talk is cheap, anybody can afford it, but not too many can spend it.

— Anonymous

“Maa" The only word that holds power to give you strength when you are in pain.”

— Akansh Malik

Before you try to act like you know everything, know yourself first.

— Isaiah Harden (Me

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

— Max Hastings

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

— Brenda Lee

My dad said that if it's part of the character, I'm allowed to say bad words, but if it's not part of…

— Rohan Chand

I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.

— Sonia Choquette

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity…

— Harlan Ellison

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When I was a younger person, if I met someone that I was listening to pretty devoutly, I'd be at a loss…

— Alex G

I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending…

— Scott Michael Foster

I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors…

— Jason Blum

“With any word, there are subconscious associations, which simply means that certain words make you think of certain things, even if you…

— Lemony Snicket

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I have an admiration for Mr. Eastwood that borders on the kind that I have for the Grand Canyon. Like it, he…

— Michael Korda

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those…

— Marcel Proust

For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no…

— Jeanette Winterson

If all of my instructions to staff during the seven years I hosted a radio show were written down and examined, I'd…

— Jason Whitlock

Love is a feeling too big to be described completely by words.

— Terry Mark

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

— Joe Bob Briggs

“Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.”

— Sara Nelson

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

— Beth Orton

One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily.

— Sarada Devi

I don't think you can put into words the feelings you get playing week in and week out.

— Jack Wilshere

Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

You don't have to love in words, because even through the silences love is always heard.

— Anonymous

We got rid of Muammar Gaddafi. I never thought I would be able to write these words.

— Hisham Matar

You can say you love, words are cheap! When trouble comes around, you leave

— Naresha

Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

— Frank Herbert

Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.

— Michael Hyatt

“Words were not the enemy or the monster under my bed, but they held such power over me.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

— Theodor Adorno

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

— Joshua Reynolds

Words can only have an effect on you if you choose to listen to them.

— Bernajoy Vaal