Quotes About Nice Words

#1. Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

Simon Cowell

#2. 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.

Star Jones

#3. They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

Shannon Hale

#4. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go out and greet those wonderful creatures and say a few nice words in a language invented by Tolkein. I've practiced, but I sound like Chewbacca making a New Year's speech.

Nina George

#5. Your kids are never to young or too old to hear nice words about them.

Coco Rocha

#6. I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

Jerry Lewis

#7. It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

Chauncey Depew

#8. I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

Helena Bonham Carter

#9. I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

Bruno Mars

#10. I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.

Zooey Deschanel

#11. It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

Matthew Bourne

#12. The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

Bryan Ferry

#13. You are one gorgeous creature," he said. "Did any of those loser boyfriends ever tell you that?"
Not in so many words. Not in any words, really. And it was nice to hear, even if it came from Theo.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#14. Wouldn't
" Kel began to say, but the words stuck in her mouth. She swallowed and tried again. "Wouldn't it be well, not nice to flirt with somebody you don't want to fall in love with?

Tamora Pierce

#15. How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.

Adam Sandler

#16. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally and seriously is rarely considered.

Francis Chan

#17. Jean Laffite was a sexy bad boy with a gentleman's manners and an air of barely suppressed danger. Every girl's secret dreamboat in other words. We always say we want a nice, hardworking, decent guy but we're lying to ourselves. - DJ Jaco

Suzanne Johnson

#18. What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her or himself, the words were able to connect to a reader's heart.

Miyoko Hikiji

#19. My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration.

Debasish Mridha

#20. He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

Frank Herbert

#21. As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

Linda Kaplan Thaler

#22. Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .

Miya Yamanouchi

#23. There is one fault that I must find
With the twentieth century.
And I'll put it in a couple of words;
Too adventury.
What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony
If anyone's gotony.

Ogden Nash

#24. Solution - A method of fixing a problem or situation. Solution is a positive Netiquette Word.

David Chiles

#25. I just-I don't want to get involved with you Jackson," I said, the words tumbling out. "You're a nice guy, but then, when it comes down to it-you're not, really.

E. Lockhart

#26. Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.

Richard Widmark

#27. In other words, if you're not motivated to be nice because of the good karma, be motivated to be nice because ultimately it saves time

Jocelyn K. Glei

#28. Silence often speaks louder than words. To be heard is nice to be understood is divine.

Truth Devour

#29. It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice ... Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.

L.M. Montgomery

#30. It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters.

David Chiles

#31. When she talks to Tripp, something nice happens inside of her: a vibration, a thrum. It's as if a tiny wind chime is suspended inside her soul, she thinks, and his words are the wind that makes it ring.

Mary Amato

#32. Now that was informative" were her first words. "Catherine, you never told me that no matter how many times you sliced something off a vampire, it grew back"
Charming, "Guess I don't have to ask if you had a nice time.

Jeaniene Frost

#33. Mark my words and hold my heels, I do not play nice when other women touch my things

Skyla Madi

#34. When I heard 'Moon River', at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to the words and realized this song was about Huck Finn. I just love the words, that it's kind of you and me against the world, and we're going to make it together.

Drew Holcomb

#35. Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

Don DeLillo

#36. You make a nice mum,' I mumbled.

'I always hoped one day the woman of my dreams would say those words to me,' he said, ruffling my vomity hair. I would've poked him in the ribs in reprisal, but I lacked the motor skills.

Mhairi McFarlane

#37. Here Mrs. Wiggins, who had been slowing down gradually, came to a full stop. "Good land, Charles," she said, looking down at the rooster, "I can't remember all those big words. That was a real nice speech you wrote out for me, but I guess you'll just have to let me tell it in my own way." Charles

Walter R. Brooks

#38. When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

Roberto Benigni

#39. Some words were made up without any thought given. Nice is one of them. Nice has no meaning. Nice gets thrown out there to replace something meaningful. Take Goodreads and turn it into Nicereads. This goes to show that nice provides no justice.

J.R. Rim

#40. Phoebe was thinking, Insubordinate. What a lovely word. And when was the last time she'd heard a nice-looking young man use it? Why-never, that's when. What a treat. And to have a ruler who could say conscientious and citizenry in the same sentence. Lovely.

Jean Ferris

#41. One of the nicest things you can do is to speak kind words about someone behind his or her back.

Molly Friedenfeld

#42. Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. And I used to be such a nice guy.

Chuck Palahniuk

#43. You are reading the words of a complete schmuck, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. Wouldn't it be nice if all authors admitted what I just said? The world would surely be a lot less confusing if they did...

Mark B. Warring

#44. Mark My Words Jack Frost ... Before I Die I Am Going To Buy A Yacht And Sail Off To A Nice Warm & Sunny Paradise. Freeze And Abuse Someone's Else's Rear End ... You Been Warned.

Timothy Pina

#45. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Simon Sinek

#46. Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

Chuck Palahniuk

#47. Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers ...

Angela Carter

#48. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips. She looks nice today, I'd think, but somehow it wouldn't occur to me to say it out loud.

Gillian Flynn

#49. In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

Chuck Palahniuk

#50. Running twenty-six miles is no fun.
I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him.

Tony Hawks

#51. After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked or lost. Here, though, in the quiet pressed against each other, this felt familiar to me. And it was nice to let someone get close again, even if it was just for a little while.

Sarah Dessen

#52. You're right, Halt,' she said, and he nodded acklowledgement of her backing down.
'Nice to hear someone else saying that for a change,' Will said cheerfully. 'Seems like I've said those words an awful lot in my time.'
Halt turned a bleak gaze on him. 'And you've always been right.

John Flanagan

#53. Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

Lisa Kleypas

#54. Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.

Gilbert Gottfried

#55. PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.

Samuel Johnson

#56. In the immortal words of Duke Vaughn, "If you don't have anything nice to say, take a big bite and chew slow.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#57. Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

Elizabeth George

#58. Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

Ronnie Wood

#59. Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.

Joseph Simmons

#60. My words must be powerful to make people so afraid of them. It's rather nice to feel I have power.

Annette Curtis Klause

#61. He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

Sarah Dessen

#62. I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

Andy Serkis

#63. I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

L.M. Montgomery

#64. She understood. They were plastic flowers of words - but they looked nice on the surface.

Anne Ursu

#65. You don't 'love' people when they are 'nice'. Don't you see that's the same as saying 'what's in it for me'?

Jerzy Pilch

#66. When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible.

Nina Guilbeau

#67. As nice as his touch was, it's not what lingers with me while I work. It's his words. Two words I tried to shut out, but they cling to me.
What if echoes in my head as I hunt.
What if haunts me through the Narrows.
What if follows me home.

Victoria Schwab

#68. Mum said that I shouldn't be moved to do anything by someone with sweet words, but Tommy Falk doesn't seem to be trying to persuade me of anything, so I let his compliment slip down nice and easy. It's quite agreeable and I'd be happy enough with another.

Maggie Stiefvater

#69. I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.

Donatella Versace

#70. Callipygian. Having shapely buttocks. Nice one, Bridge.

Stephanie Perkins

#71. It's so nice to learn how
people react to my words.

Toba Beta

#72. One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.

Lucy Lawless

#73. There's something very pleasant about a language you don't understand ... It's like a fog swirling around in our thoughts ... It's nice, it's like a dream, there's really nothing better ... It's fine as long as the words stay in the dream ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#74. I will tell you how to make money: Work very hard. I will tell you how to win love: Wear nice clothing and smile all the time. Learn the words to all the latest songs.

Kurt Vonnegut