Top 100 Words In Quotes
#1. Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as they should be.
David McDonald
#2. Eminem's rhyme patterns are super dope and he can squeeze a million words in a couple bars. Crazy creative. His voice changes alot though.
Chamillionaire
#3. I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a
single word: Home.
Mahmoud Darwish
#4. Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.
Carrie Brownstein
#5. Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.
Stephen Potter
#6. All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
George Will
#7. If only," repeated Rick with a shake of his head. "Those are two words in the English language that we regret saying the most.
Linda Weaver Clarke
#8. What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.
Tim LaHaye
#9. I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.
Maria McCann
#10. We need to talk." she says.
"The four most dreaded words in the history of marriage.
Andrew Pyper
#11. One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
Jill McCorkle
#12. Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
[Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]
Ovid
#13. There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
Diane Setterfield
#14. If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
Mercedes Lackey
#15. She still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts in which she could clearly think out all that was in her soul.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
Benjamin Whorf
#17. I think suddenly about what it means to grow old. It means that all those that you loved as a youth become nothing but photographs on a wall, words in a story, memories in a heart.
Cynthia Swanson
#18. Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#19. There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.
Adam Gopnik
#20. There are times when silence is better than any other words in the dictionary...
Francis Chalifour
#21. Someday we'll be more then words in the dark
Sara Raasch
#22. You slogged from the terrifying emptiness of the blank page to the two most beautiful words in a writer's vocabulary: The End.
Lisa Cron
#23. In me, now," she murmured, her eyes sparking with untamed heat. The three most perfect words in his language.
Savannah Stuart
#24. A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt ...
Mark Twain
#25. I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
Isabel Allende
#26. I'd prefer a debriefing by the professional," Matthias said. "Rather than one of the idiot's exhausting, million-words-in-one-breath babbling explanations." "Hey," I said. "That is a rare talent." "Maybe your only talent.
A&E Kirk
#27. Let's get away from
all the clever humans
who put words in our mouth
let's only say what our hearts desire.
Rumi
#28. I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
#30. If' and 'only' are the two most useless words in the human vocabulary,
Harper Bliss
#31. The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
#32. Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!
Billy Graham
#33. When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
Mary Szybist
#34. Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
Hal Sparks
#35. I love you, you know. Viviane let the words hang in the air between them for a moment, like a sweet pink cloud. Then she inhaled the words in whole, turned them over in her mouth, relished their solidity on her tongue.
Leslye Walton
#36. There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.
Toba Beta
#38. The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world.
Sorin Cerin
#39. The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
Al Pacino
#40. Mr. Head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were no words in the world that could name it. He understood that it grew out of agony, which is not denied to any man and which is given in strange ways to children.
Flannery O'Connor
#41. We loved all the words in your manuscript, but we were wondering if you could maybe put them in a completely different order." Dave Coverly
Dave Coverly
#42. The words in his book wormed off the pages.
Everything glittered like blank paper.
Sylvia Plath
#43. The subject is increased by the fact that while we have to deal with novel and strange facts, we have also to use old words in novel and inconsistent senses.
James Gleick
#44. Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.
Kathleen Turner
#45. Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.
Heinz Guderian
#46. To maintain your integrity, just maintain your words in sanctity, and your works in sincerity. You can't be really trusted when your works of today are standing against your words of yesterday!
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy.
Sarah Vowell
#48. The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.
Dorothy Parker
#49. Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.
Cecelia Ahern
#50. Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.
Michael Scott
#51. Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.
Denise Duhamel
#52. When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello
#53. I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.
Maynard James Keenan
#54. From the three, you then use one to make eight ones. You add those ones to the three, and you get one-three base eight, or, in other words, In base ten you have eleven, and you take away seven. And seven from eleven is four. Now go back to the sixty-fours, you're left with two.
Tom Lehrer
#55. I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.
Beth Revis
#56. Stories matter. We are composed of our stories. The human heart is made of the words we put in it. If someone ever says mean things to you, don't let those words go into your heart, and be careful not to put mean words in other people's hearts.
Susan Abulhawa
#57. There weren't enough words in that moment to express the depth of our affection and our longing for each other. I never wanted this moment to end. Levi.
J.J. McAvoy
#58. Optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#59. The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
Jean Piaget
#60. I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).
Umberto Eco
#61. Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.
ASAP Ferg
#62. Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.
Peter Norvig
#63. Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
Ian Fleming
#64. The most powerful words in English are, Tell me a story.
Pat Conroy
#65. One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.
Eileen Caddy
#66. There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job,
J.K. Simmons
#67. People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right then I realize that he is not writing down all my words in a file, which I really appreciate, let me tell you.
Matthew Quick
#68. A conversation began to take shape between us. A conversation that happened in unspoken words, in false words, in knowing glances.
Nadia Hashimi
#69. God didn't create you to walk around in self-defeat in any form. Neither are we fashioned to become someone's emotional slave; adhering to the harshness of their words in humility and remorse, while fearing a verbal lashing if we reject their false authority.
T.K. Ware
#70. If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
Randall Terry
#71. But through it all I held Mrs. Pettibone's words in my heart-the ones she spoke to me after the funeral when she took my hand, looked into my face and said, You've got your father's eyes.
Joan Bauer
#72. She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#73. The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
John Ortberg Jr.
#74. A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Laurie Anderson
#75. I never want to leave you.
I didn't respond- not because I couldn't find the words, but because there weren't any words in the entire world that could have sounded more perfect.
Meredith T. Taylor
#76. When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual.
John Loengard
#77. Speak God's words over your circumstances today. Speak His words in faith and watch Him move!
Kenneth Copeland
#78. The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language
the word 'enthusiasm'
en theos
a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.
Louis Pasteur
#79. Agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. We need not to put words in the mouth of truth. Truth cannot digest lies
Kishore Bansal
#81. Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria - anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor.
W.P. Kinsella
#82. Interesting capitalization,' I said.
'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.
John Green
#83. I don't believe there's such a thing as conventional love. Love is bending. Love is breaking. Love is constantly learning about the other person until you go crazy because it will never be perfect, but there's no fault in trying. I've loved a boy who was extraordinary beyond words, in my eyes.
Amber L. Johnson
#84. I peered at his writing, but I could make nothing of it.
Then I saw why, and my soul chilled like marble.
His writing was running left to right. Not the words in reverse order, but the letter themselves. All of it. It was mirror writing- to be read by the Devil.
Theresa Breslin
#85. Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.
Hemant Mehta
#86. Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth," must not be explained as signifying such earthly peace as the world enjoyed under Caesar Augustus, as many believe, but "peace with God," or spiritual peace.
Martin Luther
#87. If we don't have the right words in our vocabularies, we can't even see the things that are right in front of our faces.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#88. I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care ... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.
Michael Crawford
#89. Someday we will be more than words in the dark.
Sara Raasch
#90. Vocabularian (n.) One who pays too much attention to words. In the past I have been accused by various parties of paying too much attention to words. Which is true, I suppose; but what else do I have to pay attention to? Vomiturient
Ammon Shea
#91. I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet
buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture
than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.
Mary Karr
#92. We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.
Thomas Sowell
#93. Was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions
Daniel Defoe
#94. I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
Artur Davis
#95. The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!
Dr. Seuss
#96. They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.
Anita Diamant
#97. No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.
Barbara Kingsolver
#98. The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'
Carol Tavris
#99. God speaks in a soft voice I can hear better when I resolve to listen and stop putting words in His mouth.
Elaine Orabona Foster
#100. Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
Filippo Brunelleschi
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