Top 1200 Words Matter Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

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

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

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.

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

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

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.

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.

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.

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

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.

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

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.

Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you wouldn't normally say, but you come up with an assortment of words that are really special. It just makes sense even if it's normally how you wouldn't express yourself.

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

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.

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

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.

Words are just words. They only bother you if you let them.

Why do we say 'Have a great weekend?' That's just a spell. You're just going - I have no control over your weekend. But words matter. They change our interior world. Have a great weekend.

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.

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

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

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

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

It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?'

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

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.

For me, words are just words, nothing else

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.

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

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

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

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

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

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.

I am very Aristotelian in approach - not in detail - so I always find I'm saying things that get people frustrated like 'It's a matter of balance and judgement'. To a lot of philosophers these are terrible words because they're admitting of vagueness and uncertainty. The more I've done philosophy, the more I've become convinced that that is the way it is.

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.

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

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

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

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