Using Words Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression. — Rowan Atkinson
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. — Tom Robbins
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of… — Archibald MacLeish
Knowing how to use your voice so it makes sense to your dog, using words in a way your dog can understand, correcting him without… — Brian Kilcommons
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty.… — Bertrand Russell
A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not… — Cecil Day-Lewis
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using… — Yehuda Berg
There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom,… — Paulo Coelho
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another… — John Breaux
I believe in using words, not fists. — Susan Sarandon
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired… — Paul Brunton
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply. — Theodore Sturgeon
It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way… — Jodelle Ferland
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls. — Ursula K. Le Guin
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… — Rita Dove
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his… — David Lee Roth
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there… — Patrick Rothfuss
So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh...… — Yann Martel
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and… — Mark Haddon

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