Top 100 Words Is Quotes
#1. I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.
Kathy Griffin
#2. Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
Walter Raleigh
#3. What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
Ann Reed
#4. I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than ... is where it all comes from.
Zachary Cole Smith
#5. A multitude of words is tiresome, unlike remaining centered.
Laozi
#6. The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
#8. Never be ashamed to speak your mind. Sometimes the honesty of your own words is all you can count on.
Gena D. Lutz
#9. Committing your thoughts and feelings to words is like putting your soul on a plate and hoping the diners will like what they eat.
Fennel Hudson
#10. The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.
Rick Warren
#11. History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.
Revilo P. Oliver
#12. Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.
Richard King
#13. I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.
Cormac McCarthy
#14. I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.
Dave Grohl
#15. The problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#16. True conversation is its own experience, and experience, not words, is the thing that brings people closer.
Doug Cooper
#17. The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are saying. However, when we turn around and come face-to-face with our destiny, we discover that words are not enough.
Paulo Coelho
#18. Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.
Ted Malloch
#19. The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.
Frederick Buechner
#20. It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.
Vanna Bonta
#21. Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.
Peter Davis
#22. A wielder of words is a wielder of power.
Dyrk Ashton
#23. What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?
Noorilhuda
#25. In this age when words have lost their value, this age that is therefore dominated by violent words, by words swollen and yellowed with starvation, I have lost the will to speak any more of words. My despair over words is not an admittance of defeat in life.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#26. Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.
Joseph Campbell
#27. An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
Agnes Repplier
#28. In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason ?
R.S. Thomas
#29. Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
Joseph Joubert
#30. Let others take care of the details." That, in a few words, is the meaning of delegating work and responsibility.
Meir Liraz
#31. Everything I've ever felt, but could never put into words, is poetically orchestrated through Mat Devine 's writing. In a lonely world, a book like this will make you feel like you belong. Simply put, Weird War One changed my life.
Kat Von D.
#32. For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. Nietzsche once said "that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts." I didn't believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate - and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.
Ron Rash
#34. One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#35. A Writer Drenched in Words is Never Caught in a Dry Spell
Anonymous
#36. The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
Andrew Solomon
#37. A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.
Eric Hoffer
#38. In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors.
Ymatruz
#39. The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
Audre Lorde
#40. To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#41. To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token,
is he who has a tongue to tell that must remain unspoken.
Moondog
#43. The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Frank Herbert
#45. An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#46. Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
Bruce Lee
#47. See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin.
Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch
David Cronenberg
#48. Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.
Thiruvalluvar
#49. Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.
Sorin Cerin
#50. The weight of your words is more important than the volume of your voice!
Manprit Kaur
#51. Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.
Thomas Pynchon
#52. Memorizing facts and then regurgitating them into carefully crafted words is not science people. It's intellectual bulimia. Real science happens when we explore what we don't know. The first law of understanding the human brain and the mind within, is to be an explorer.
Abhijit Naskar
#53. The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer
#54. Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#55. The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.
John Dunne
#56. A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.
Lysa TerKeurst
#57. Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Martha Beck
#58. One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire
#61. But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em,
there's times when they jes wont
come.
Jean Toomer
#62. to express our dream about life in words is not easy but to show it with an example will surprise a lot of people and give them a shock.
Jan Jansen
#63. The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.
Jeffrey Meyers
#66. The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
Dennis Potter
#67. However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
Malcolm Boyd
#68. The Bible is not a set of instructions that can give us simple answers," wrote Webber, "nor a text with which to prove points ... . The guidance the Bible gives was provided for a society very different from ours ... and any set of words is open to different interpretations.
Sara Miles
#69. The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can't change what you feel inside.
Rebecca James
#70. The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
Robert Dale Owen
#71. Saying that you love is easy, but living up to those simple words is the most difficult thing you'll ever do.
Kay Hooper
#72. Middle-earth, in other words, is a hauntingly luminous mirror image of our world. For we know that the world in which we live is a perilous place, a place where good and bad, light and dark, innocence and horror, glory and depravity march side by side and sleep back-to-back.
Kurt Bruner
#73. Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.
Greg Iles
#74. Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton
#76. The tyranny of words is only slightly less absolute than that of men; but whereas elections, revolutions, or just the dreary passage of time can do away with human tyranny, patient analysis and redefinition are required to remedy the linguistic affliction.
Ernst B. Haas
#77. The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?
Zhuangzi
#78. There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
John O'Donohue
#79. The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?
Allison Mackie
#80. The shortest path to success in art, if I could put it into words, is altruism, but if you don't care about anything in the world, and even get angry at people that show you the truth, how can you be altruistic?
Daniel Marques
#81. What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place.
Barbara Kingsolver
#82. The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
Emile De Girardin
#83. Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page ... Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is noise.
William Zinsser
#84. What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.
George Orwell
#85. the fragrance in my words is not me
But a reflection of your soul
The scent of jasmine is the beauty of your heart
That is the source of soulful you
Vishwas Chavan
#86. Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.
David W. Orr
#87. We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
Alessandro Baricco
#88. It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.
Galileo Galilei
#89. The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
Jonathan Swift
#90. To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
Andre Maurois
#91. The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Antisthenes
#92. The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.
Mark Twain
#93. Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. The sentence is the great invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.
John Banville
#95. I am a 'professional word seller'..I sell 'WORDS' for a 'living'...
'LIVING' with 'empowering' words is a 'Choice' we make..
'CHOICE' comes via the meaning we give to words we use..
'MEANING' comes from understanding 'life'...
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#97. Did there not cross your mind some thought of the physical power of words? Is not every word an impulse on the air?
Edgar Allan Poe
#98. The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
Gabriela Mistral
#99. Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.
Anandamayi Ma
#100. When the world is to come to it's final destruction the powerful will always reason of peaceful nuclear programs which in my own words is a shameful chapter to start when the world has already been destroyed.
Auliq Ice
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