Words Quotes

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

Words are just words.

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

Be not a slave of words.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.

I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.