Top 1200 Using Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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?

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

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.

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

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I think my favorite two words are 'true blue.' I think those words are really important, and the spirit of them has been lost.

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.

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

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

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.

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

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

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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?

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.

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

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

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.

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.

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.'

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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

When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss words are also a way of expression.

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.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

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

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

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.

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.

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

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

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

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.

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