Top 100 Words On Quotes
#1. Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Guy De Maupassant
#2. Do not waste my words on tired minds.
I can only talk to those who are thirsty
for the sea.
Rumi
#3. Always think twice before asking anything of anyone that ends in the words, on your face.
Dana Gould
#4. The machine has several virtues ... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.
Mark Twain
#5. One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
Carlos Fuentes
#6. Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.
Debby Ryan
#7. There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.
Jack Kevorkian
#8. Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
Eckhart Tolle
#9. I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too minute. Sometimes, at the end of the day, there's just not enough colors involved - visually, there are just words on a page.
Andrea Gabriel
#10. The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
Alice Sebold
#11. If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it's a poem.
Ewuare X. Osayande
#12. would I be proud to wear my typed words on a t-shirt in public for the next hundred years?
Erik Qualman
#13. When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger;
invisible hands draw back the curtains,
a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust
of the piano ...
Yiannis Ritsos
#14. The words on the pages within this book are solely dedicated to victims of bullying, those that ever have or still do suffer from depression, mental illness, and the struggles that accompany it. You are brave. You are strong. You are smart. You are beautiful. You are worth it.
Kathryn Perez
#15. I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form.
Simon Toyne
#16. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
James Nicoll
#17. If you want to be a successful writer you have to put your butt in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard and put words on the page. Even shitty words are better than no words. You can go back and fix them later.
Liliana Hart
#18. You know how to put pretty words on a page, but you don't know shit about a woman's feelings.
Haruki Murakami
#20. More than anything, I wanted to help her write new words, on perfectly crisp, untouched paper, and to come up with a flawless title, for the perfect story.
Rachel Brookes
#21. My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity's sake?
Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. "I do what I can." Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. "You are a brave man.
Gail Carriger
#23. Words in the air blow away as soon as you say them, but words on paper last forever
Vince Vawter
#24. Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?
Neil Armstrong
#25. Don't waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
Mandy Hale
#26. I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
Anne Stevenson
#27. There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
Robert Nozick
#28. Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
Jasper Fforde
#29. But are there books, books there are! Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them.
Barbara Kingsolver
#30. Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what's left.
Steve Krug
#31. No wonder they mistake this for peace. I want to scream at every Red face I pass. I want to carve the words on my body so everyone has to see. Trap. Lie. Conspiracy.
Victoria Aveyard
#32. Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift ...
Lynn Austin
#33. The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.
Storm Constantine
#34. I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters, in order to give them their journey. My job is to come in and try to make those words on the page come alive on camera.
John Barrowman
#35. I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.
Peter O'Toole
#36. Until there's a public commitment, and action to back that commitment, a policy is only words on paper.
Tim Field
#37. Sometime it is necessary for us to go a step further than merely writing words on paper.
Lisa Conell
#38. Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.
Rik Mayall
#39. When showering life-giving words on another human, don't just pick the people you know well. Notice the one who least expects to be noticed.
Karen Ehman
#40. My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
Michael K. Williams
#41. I've never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of emotions; raw experience. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort.
Joyce Carol Oates
#42. I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
#43. We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us
words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.
David Levithan
#44. We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.
John Gardner
#45. You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
Sandra Brown
#46. Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.
Ted Cruz
#47. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
#48. Stories are more than just words on paper. They are pieces of our souls.
Laura Holt
#49. The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
Anne Enright
#50. I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself. Another time, I was named for a rock.
Brandon Sanderson
#51. I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about. I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying. Beginning was awful.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#52. Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;Press to close with vigor, once begun,And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.
Joseph Story
#53. I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?
John Baldessari
#54. When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
Karen Salmansohn
#55. I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
Alfonso Ribeiro
#56. My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.
Tawni O'Dell
#57. FATBACK'S DEAD" The words on the slip of paper struck me like a blow. "Fatback's dead." It was not just the news itself, though the words cut deep. It was the very fact of the note, stuck on my windshield on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota,
Kent Nerburn
#58. I've been a film geek since I was a little kid and to start with an idea and then get a stack of papers with words on it called a script, then storyboarding the art, and you sit with these guys and now all the sudden it's a movie, and to see fans reactions to it when you put it out.
Thomas Tull
#59. Keep smiling, I tell myself. It's all good. That's what my wrist tattoo says and you only ink permanent words on your person if you plan to live by them.
J.C. Lillis
#60. The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
Nathan Myhrvold
#61. We have put our words on steroids and amped the language up so high that unless we communicate in overdrive and hyperbole, we believe
perhaps correctly
that nobody will hear us. In the process, we've sacrificed nuance and judgement and distinction, and thereby cheapened the conversation.
Frank Luntz
#62. Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed ...
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
Oscar Wilde
#63. The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.
Elie Wiesel
#64. The creative act of the artist lifts him above himself by demanding full surrender. No one puts words on paper or paint on canvas, doubting. If one doubts, one does so five minutes later ...
Czeslaw Milosz
#65. I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.
Rosie O'Donnell
#66. I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.
French Montana
#67. I'm a reporter - if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.
Ira Glass
#68. I think you can use some of those words on TV. But one thing you can't do is throw coffee, I've said it over and over again!
David Letterman
#69. But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.
Temple Grandin
#70. I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.
Buzz Aldrin
#71. Now to reach the point where one evolved technological monkey is typing these words on a keyboard and hoping another evolved technological monkey is bored enough to read them, has taken about 4.34 billion years of planetary evolution.
Steve Merrick
#72. As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.
Athol Fugard
#73. The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
Pippa Evans
#74. Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.
Andy Kindler
#75. Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.
Dave Barry
#76. Beautiful conventions received them--while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips, the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.
E. M. Forster
#77. You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
A. L. Kennedy
#79. In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
Neal Stephenson
#80. I try to concentrate on the words, on the melody, but then she starts searching through songs, and this feels like my brain - fragments of words, fragments of melodies, fragments of moments, fragments of things.
Jennifer Niven
#81. to put forth my final words on this subject...there is no dilemma, there is no problem...unless you, the believer...create the problem yourself by adopting a set of beliefs that puts you at odds with the ongoing labor of science and discovery. I am not telling you here that god does
Robert Butler
#82. I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#83. Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.
Marilyn Manson
#84. Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.
Napoleon Hill
#85. I thought I'd sit write down and right you a letter. Just words on paper to last you for a lifetime. But it occurred to me when I thought back and remembered, that the better me begins and ends with you.
Nick Moccia
#86. With her right index finger she slowly spells words on Grace's skin.
Don't let me go crazy.
The moon is pale and vast. The stars so sharp they almost hurt.
Helen Humphreys
#87. You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself.
Hank Green
#88. When you read the words on the page you give it life - yours...
Gary Rimmer
#89. Everybody thinks Hitler got to power because of his armies, because they were willing to kill, and that's partly true, because in the real world power is always built on the threat of death and dishonor. But mostly he got to power on words, on the right words at the right time.
Orson Scott Card
#90. It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.
Caroline Polachek
#91. But the tour did remind me that my life had been bigger than just that one moment. One girl. One set of words on paper. That I had gone through other things before-good and terrible, funny and awful-and I had survived.
Kimberly McCreight
#92. Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.
Kate Klise
#93. Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
Mark Helprin
#94. Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!
Tom Lehrer
#95. Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
Jason Calacanis
#96. The possibility has occurred to me that the proper condition of man, which is to say that condition in which he is most admirable, may not be that prosperity, peace, and harmony which I labored to give to Rome." He has founded his empire, in other words, on a misconception. This
John Williams
#97. Before her was a man who wasted words on no one. If he said something, you could take the worth of his words to the bank. In her home was a man who had the skill and talent to be anyone and chose to be the best version of himself.
Sarah Winter
#98. How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?
Sylvia Plath
#99. Words on paper are not the same as blood on hands.
Lorraine Heath
#100. Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.
Michael Arditti
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