Few Words Quotes

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

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

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue.

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

She knew few words and believed in none.

A few words about ‘trannychasing.’ I am not a trannychaser. Ok, actually I am a trannychaser. No I am not. I am a trannycatcher! Just kidding!

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities.

Sometimes people come and they have so much pain and confusion in their eyes... what to do? A few words is a little bit of balm but doesn't really solve the deep disease within.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.

I've never been called a man of few words.

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

My father was a man of few words.

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

To be of few words is natural.

The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

Every few words you speak, every little help you offer and every small advice you give mass up tiny miracles that can change someone's life forever!