Quotes on Words

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Author: Ansel Adams

The paper burns, but the words fly away.

Author: Ben Akiba

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

Author: Woody Allen

Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said 'Loud, Louder, and Loudest.

Author: Anastacia

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Author: Francis Assisi

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Author: Saint Augustine

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

Author: J. Austin

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Author: Erykah Badu

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

Author: Honore Balzac

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

Author: Lester Bangs

Words are all we have.

Author: Samuel Beckett

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

Author: Brendan Behan

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Author: Leonard Bernstein

If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway.

Author: Richard Berry

Words are illusions.

Author: Bodhidharma

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Author: Bodhidharma

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

Author: Joe Briggs

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Author: Arthur Bryant

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

Author: John Buchan

Your words smell of corpses.

Author: Georg Buchner

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Author: Pearl Buck

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Author: John Bunyan

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

Author: George Bush

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Author: Samuel Butler

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Author: John Calvin

In other words, by finding the anomalous event, what you do is you get out ahead of activities.

Author: Stephen Cambone

Words are just words.

Author: Luther Campbell

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

Author: Jim Capaldi

Be not a slave of words.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Author: Winston Churchill

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Author: Emile Cioran

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

Author: Rosemary Clooney

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

Author: Alan Colmes

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Author: Charles Dickens

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Author: John Dryden

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

Author: Bob Dylan

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Author: George Eliot

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

Author: Mike Epps

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Author: Louise Erdrich

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.

Author: Sherilyn Fenn

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

Author: Bryan Ferry

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

Author: Dorothy Fields

We came up with three core touchy feely words.

Author: James Frank

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Author: Martin Freeman

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

Author: Fred Frith

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Author: Robert Frost

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Author: R. Fuller

The only thing you have to know are your words.

Author: Eva Gabor

The stitch of a book is its words.

Author: Rumer Godden

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Author: Johann Goethe

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Author: Johann Hamann

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Author: Learned Hand

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

Author: Mitch Hedberg

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Author: Ernest Hemingway

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Author: Jimi Hendrix

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Author: George Herbert

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

Author: Jaime Hernandez

Use not big words for naught.

Author: L. Heroux

I'm cautious about a lot of words.

Author: James Hillman

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Author: Lewis Hine

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Author: Adolf Hitler

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Author: Howard Hodgkin

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.

Author: Howard Hodgkin

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Author: Hans Hofmann

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

Author: Horace

A picture is a poem without words.

Author: Horace

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Author: Storm Jameson

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Author: Wendell Johnson

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Author: Star Jones

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Author: James Joyce

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

Author: Gil Kane

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.

Author: Paul Kantner

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

Author: Klaus Kinski

But words - words are not enough!

Author: Klaus Kinski

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

Author: Alfred Korzybski

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

Author: Carmen Laforet

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

Author: Stefano Langone

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Author: Ninon Lenclos

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

Author: Joseph Lightfoot

There are two words for everything.

Author: E. Lucas

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

Author: Maurice Maeterlinck

It's only words... unless they're true.

Author: David Mamet

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

Author: Marlee Matlin

Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

Author: Curtis Mayfield

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Author: Thom Mayne

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

Author: John McCain

There's a lot you can do without words.

Author: Craig McCracken

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.

Author: Donald McKay

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

Author: Joni Mitchell

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

Author: Moliere

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Author: Henry Moore

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Author: Pat Morita

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

Author: Christopher Morley

In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.

Author: Jason Mraz

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Author: Richard Nixon

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

Author: Flann O'Brien

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

Author: Ric Ocasek

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Author: Georgia O'Keeffe

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

Author: Beth Orton

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Author: Blaise Pascal

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Author: Alan Perlis

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Author: Antonio Porchia

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Author: Jerry Pournelle

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Author: Pythagoras

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Author: Jules Renard

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

Author: Gavin Rossdale

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Author: J. Rowling

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Author: Herbert Samuel

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Author: May Sarton

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are loaded pistols.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Author: Robert Service

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Author: William Shakespeare

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Author: Ben Shneiderman

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

Author: Georges Simenon

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

Author: Erika Slezak

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Author: Shepard Smith

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Author: Robert Smithson

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Author: Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Author: Robert Southey

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

Author: Wole Soyinka

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

Omit needless words.

Author: William Strunk, Jr.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

Author: Theodore Sturgeon

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

Author: Allen Tate

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Author: Lao Tzu

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Author: Gore Vidal

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Author: Peter Vries

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

Author: Lech Walesa

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Author: William Ward

I put the words down and push them a bit.

Author: Evelyn Waugh

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

Author: Devon Werkheiser

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

Author: Paul Weyrich

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Author: Benjamin Whorf

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Author: George Will

Embrace the silence, for in it lies the wisdom that words cannot express.

Author: Gabrielle King

Kindness is a universal language that can heal the world with its words.

Author: Olivia Williams

Words have the power to uplift or destroy, choose them wisely.

Author: Samantha Williams

Words have the power to break or mend, to wound or heal; choose them wisely.

Author: Samantha Smith