Words Quotes

12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to… — Ayumi Hamasaki
Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they… — Heraclitus
I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth. — Rudyard Kipling
Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . . — Rudyard Kipling
And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry.… — Lauren Oliver
Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal… — David Almond
And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the… — Ezra Taft Benson
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually… — David Copperfield
I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. — Harry Reid
I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional… — LeBron James
I still have goals. Seeing those doubters out there, it's gonna be funny seeing them eat their words. — Derrick Rose
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there… — Anne McCaffrey
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many… — Anne McCaffrey
The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other… — Philip Jose Farmer
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.' — Robert Creeley
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. — Anaxagoras
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute… — Andrei Tarkovsky
If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract… — Akira Kurosawa
As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind. — Pranab Mukherjee
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and… — Fernando Pessoa
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets… — Van Morrison
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of… — Ambrose Bierce
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This… — Anna Quindlen

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