Top 1200 English Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, - the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

Words matter. Especially if you're kicking someone's ass in words with friends.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

I just loved listening to hip-hop, I love the words. The angry words resonated with me.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned.

If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come here, you have to play in this style.

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

Donald Trump's words are are not funny, his words are poisonous.

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?

Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Words can INSPIRE and words can DESTROY. Choose YOURS well

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.