Top 1200 Thousand Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Some authorities believe that one prosperous thought is more powerful than a thousand failure thoughts; and that two prosperous attitudes steadily held and expressed are more powerful than ten thousand failure attitudes!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should believe His Word with all simplicity. A thousand years means a thousand years; a wolf means a wolf; a lion means a lion. If you read your Bible that way, a child can understand it.

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

Words can INSPIRE and words can DESTROY. Choose YOURS well

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

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

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

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.

Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

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

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.

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

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

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

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

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

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

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

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

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

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

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.

Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know not when your last Sabbath with your people may come. Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One Self that is forever your own deepest being? Must you believe the lies of time? Must you swallow the insanity that One Spirit does not exist? Can you show me your Original Face, of which there is One and Only One in all the entire World?

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

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.

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

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

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

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

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

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

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

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

The publisher, Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fortunately sixty percent of Americans now get the point, but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

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

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

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

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer.' He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. . . .

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

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

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

There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of 'law,' but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods.

And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.