Top 1200 Play On Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party

Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

Words aren't hurting anybody. Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly. But we're so focused on the words.

I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's OK! But I think "generally play" stems back to Mr Darcy. I'm fine with it but I tend to find that if it's a departure, which in other people's words it always is, it's always a departure from that.

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.

Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]

I'd like to play a guy who doesn't think so much. I'd like a character whose words come out before he thinks about it. I want a character who is just kind of dumb in that way. A guy who doesn't have too many dangerous, devious ideas. It would be fun to play a role like that.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors. I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.

Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do." - Crave the Moon

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words such as dimension and field and infinity ... are not descriptions of reality, yet we accept them as such because everyone is sure someone else knows what the words mean.

All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.

Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.

Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Words are the instruments you play to the song of? your ideas, you're just playing covers.

At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.

And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish, two powerful words that can change any situation, two dynamic words that all too few people use. And what are these two amazing words? Do it!

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words — the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on.

The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

Words are the only jewels I possess Words are the only clothes I wear Words are only the food that sustain my life Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.