Top 1200 Short Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

God’s words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God’s words lead to life.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

We live in a time of short attention spans and long stories. The short attention spans are seen as inevitable, the consequence of living our lives in thrall to flickering streams of information. The long stories are the surprise, as is the persistence of the audience for them.

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. In fact, we found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

Rapping was kind of hard. It's so many words. When you sing you can kind of stretch the words out. I didn't have to write as much as everybody else.

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said.

When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.

Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

So if you think America's politicians and citizens are willing to make the changes necessary to strengthen the U.S. dollar, then don't buy silver. But if you're like me and don't expect us, as a nation, to take our medicine, then short the dollar - and the way you short the currency is by going long on gold and silver.

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

The Super Bowl is something you can't put into words. It's such a great feeling. I wish I could put it into words, but you just have to be there to know the experience.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.

There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

Speak God's words over your circumstances today. Speak His words in faith and watch Him move!

So when you're talking about lyrics in the context of music, it's not just about what the words mean, and what you were thinking about when you wrote it. It's not cognitive in that same way. It's almost like music turns words into touch, which is hard to describe, like the feeling of your shirt on your back. It's a pretty delicate thing to try to put into words. You just feel it.