Words Quotes

12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. — Ingrid Bergman
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. — Leonard Bernstein
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. — Ambrose Bierce
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. — Theodore Bikel
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. — Theodor Adorno
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. — Josh Billings
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. — Josh Billings
Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English.… — Juliette Binoche
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… — Jim Bishop
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and… — Aaliyah
The words of truth are simple. — Aeschylus
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. — Aeschylus
Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words. — Tony Blair
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment? — Aeschylus
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't… — Andrea Bocelli
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will… — W. E. B. Du Bois
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent… — Unknown Author
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these… — Edward de Bono
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. — Kenneth Branagh
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. — Daniel J. Boorstin
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing… — David Bowie
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have… — Ray Bradbury
I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but… — Jo Brand
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. — Louis D. Brandeis

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