Top 1200 English Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena

Some people just have a love for words and thinking about words that rhyme.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

If you are going to emphasize certain words in the headline, be sure that they are the words that say something.

Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master.

Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You'd learn monologues and you'd recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

Words will be just words till you bring them to life

Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.

There are times when I can't stop speaking, when a million words leave my mouth in a matter of seconds… a million words that mean nothing… but when I want to find some words that mean everything, I just can't speak. Like: I miss you. Like: I love you. Like: My world is falling apart and I need you by my side.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly where he started, simply because words are defined in terms of other words, and these, in turn, are defined in terms of still other words.

A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish. I'm not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they've influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.

In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me.

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Words are powerful vibrations, use words to uplift your spirits and heal yourself.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.

[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious.

There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind.

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.

Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die

You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?