Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
I'm excited about going back to 'Today,' but, at odd moments, I'll grit my teeth in anxiety. I feel like a student before the start of school. I've got my new shoes and my book bag, but I'm not sure...
Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
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Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.
We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
My training as a journalist was invaluable: when I worked on 'The Daily Express,' the editor would often ask for 1000 words within a couple of hours. I could not say I was not inspired. I had to get on...
Just as there are moments when the words flow and it feels like the easiest job in the world, there are many more when I think I have nothing to say, and my journalism training taught me that writing is...
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these...
My grandmother would give me a beautiful book each year. I especially loved the Beatrix Potter books. They were very detailed. And I promised myself that was what I'd do. I also loved the big words she used. I was...
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike -...
For 'Mad Men,' we really had to stick to the script, and you want to. It's not like you feel your hand is being forced. The words you get are the words you say.
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb...
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