The Words Quotes

Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.

I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

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 took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

Well I've had a happy life.

I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: She hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from.

I've got some words of wisdom.

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

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

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.

Good words are better than bad strokes.

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.

If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.

As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

Love shouldn't hurt. Love is to help the other grow with the right words instead of using derogatory remarks. Everyone has their good points

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

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.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.

It is. But not as hard as farce.

Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow.

THE LAST WORDS OF MAX VANDENBURG: You've done enough.

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.

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.