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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Every song I've ever written always starts with the words because I want the music to be the musical extension of the feelings of the words, and not the words being the emotional extension of the feeling of the music.
I'm suited to harsh conditions, I don't like racing in the heat.
Sociopaths differ fairly dramatically in how their brains react to emotional words. An emotional word is love, hate, anger, mom, death, anything that we associate with an emotional reaction. We are wired to process those words more readily than neutral, nonemotional words. We are very emotional creatures. But sociopaths listen as evenly to emotional words as they do to lamp or book - there's no neurological difference.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
People are very harsh critics of animated humans. — © Henry Selick
People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.
We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.
I'm trying to get good message out to the people. It's like the scriptures because you know what the scriptures are in the bible. Words of Jah, words of Christ, words of Rasta and everything that's righteous are in the scriptures unto I and I.
Harsh reality is always better than false hope.
The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."
Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. It’s not to do with vocabulary or meanings, because I know quite a lot of words, but when I come out with them they get confused and scattered. That’s why I avoid stories and speeches and just stick to answering the questions I’m asked. All the extra words, the overflow, I keep to myself, the words that I silently multiply to get close to the truth.
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
Well, I'm always a bit harsh about the things I'm doing.
How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabb — © John Milton
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb
The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.
I'm an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That's probably why words of discouragement affect me so deeply.
I'm honestly offended whenever someone says I'm being harsh.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, In the beginning was the word. In the same way, your words have creative power.
I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.
My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster than you could with words. It's like a direct line of instantaneous communication where you don't have to wait for the end.
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.
I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.
If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh.
You know that social media can be a harsh thing, man.
There's a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.
The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.
I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.
I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.
Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.
When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.
Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.
khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.
Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.
A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check. — © Aubrey Plaza
A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.
No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.
On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
I feel like I'm quite harsh on myself.
And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.
When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.
Americans are really harsh about British people's teeth.
Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. — © Robert Louis Stevenson
In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.
Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally.
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.
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