Top 1200 Words Matter Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

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

I just loved listening to hip-hop, I love the words. The angry words resonated with me.

Words can INSPIRE and words can DESTROY. Choose YOURS well

There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter what the genre is. There's always gonna be a positive to a negative comment.

The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly where he started, simply because words are defined in terms of other words, and these, in turn, are defined in terms of still other words.

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

Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.

The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

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

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die

Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

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

If you'll quit moaning and crying, I'll use the things to make you into someone I can use in the lives of others to show them that no matter where they've been, no matter how deep the hole, no matter how painful the trial, there's hope. There is victory.

When you are constantly hearing offensive words and always have some irritating matter in mind, only then do you have a whetstone for character development. If you hear only what pleases you, and deal only with what thrills you, then you are burying your life in deadly poison.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.

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

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

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

I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

Words will be just words till you bring them to life

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

Words are powerful vibrations, use words to uplift your spirits and heal yourself.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.