Top 100 Words Play Quotes
#1. Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
Aldous Huxley
#2. My goal when writing is to engage the reader. Having my words play out like a movie - Rewarding. Having the reader wanting more PRICELESS
Elizabeth Cook-Howard
#3. Tell me I'm right again. Slowly this time. Really draw out the words, play it up for me. Feel free to pant in between if it feels natural.
Kylie Scott
#4. It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
John Galsworthy
#5. It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.
George Harrison
#6. A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.
Denzel Washington
#7. Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.
Diogenes Laertius
#8. 32. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Anonymous
#9. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.
Auliq Ice
#10. ... Being bedridden doesn't agree with him at all."
He certainly spent many hours abed being ridden.
Eresse
#11. I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play,
Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away;
Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street,
Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed to meet.
Charles Baudelaire
#12. A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.
Michael Monroe
#13. Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.
Rose Macaulay
#15. For me, poetry is the colour of Elizabeth Taylor's eyes, or the pauses in Pinter's plays - only the pauses, not the words.
Roger Lewis
#16. Cunt-lapping, mother-fucking, and cock-sucking are words to provoke a sense of outrage. Being forced to play the role of a woman in sexual intercourse is the deepest imaginable humiliation, which is only worsened if the victim finds to his horror that he enjoys it.
Germaine Greer
#18. When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.
Demetri Martin
#19. My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
Elfriede Jelinek
#20. Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.
Milton H. Erickson
#21. The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought
Albert Einstein
#22. Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?
Vanna Bonta
#23. I always play with words,now i'm out of words i don't know how to describe you because you're my Father.. But surely i can say i love you
Shujoy Chowdhury
#24. Listen closely to the music I play because they say the words I fail to say
Unknown
#25. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.
Christina Perri
#26. I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.
Saul Williams
#27. English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim
#28. Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."
Ted Cruz
#29. It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
Chris Cornell
#30. I know their type. They smile too easily, welcome too warmly, their words as fake as the moans
they make when they let their little boyfriends play around between their thighs.
J.M. Darhower
#31. Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain
#32. Poets play with words to keep themselves sane
Eyedea
#33. I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.
Lukas Foss
#34. Yes, I think he even has a title. He's like son and heir.'
I turned her words over in my mind as I pretended to play with my phone.
Sun and hair
Son and heir
Sun and air
Olivia Sudjic
#35. I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#36. A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion.
Debasish Mridha
#37. I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.
Darren Hayes
#39. We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
James D. Houston
#40. 'Lip Lock' is a play on words. It sounds flirty and fun. Also, my lips are one of my favorite features. Also, it's like, literally locking the game down with my words because I'm a lyricist.
Eve
#41. Wake up to think of words ... want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.
Initially NO
#42. I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!
William Congreve
#43. I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.
Brion James
#44. The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.
Theodore Bikel
#45. [Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
#46. I play a piano of words - its icy tinkle echoes through your halls
John Geddes
#47. I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny songs, I'm just adding some music to my words. So it's limited and specific, but as a performer I find it pretty enjoyable.
Demetri Martin
#48. The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'
Peter Hook
#49. Another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of course is that the words will never truly break through for any of us. some nights I have taken the sheet out of the typer and held it over the cigarette lighter, flicked it and waited for the result.
Charles Bukowski
#50. Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
Joseph Joubert
#51. The smile was still on his face, but his words were like the arctic winds. "You don't talk to her. At all." There was no stopping He-Man when he came out to play.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#52. The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
#53. I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
Cass McCombs
#54. I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.
Richard Pryor
#55. I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.
Coleman Hawkins
#56. Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'
Christian Camargo
#57. I remember. You take a great deal of
pleasure in small victories." Damen
quoted Laurent's words back to him.
"It's not small," said Laurent. "It's the
first time I've ever won a play against
my uncle.
C.S. Pacat
#58. I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
Yelawolf
#59. Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'
Rick Perlstein
#60. Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Cat Stevens
#61. Death did not play favorites - He loved all equally.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure .
The god's voice - not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind -
Lilith Saintcrow
#62. Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party
Tupac Shakur
#63. The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.
John Dryden
#64. I've titled this book 'Eighty Is Not Enough' not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.
Dick Van Patten
#65. Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.
Sara Sheridan
#66. There is basic equipment required: a headset, a Dictaphone to play the tapes that must be transcribed, and patience, a willingness to become a human conduit as the words of others enter through her ears, course through her veins, and drip out unseen through fast-moving fingertips.
Amy Rowland
#67. He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.
Carson McCullers
#68. As you can see, the words fair play are not in my vocabulary. Well, they are in my vocabulary, but only to say that they aren't.
Scott Seegert
#69. Shout! Play instruments! Praise our God and King; sing praises to Him who is worthy. 7For He is the King of all the earth. Sing praise, all who can. Put words to music, and then sing
Anonymous
#70. I worried that what I had seen in the driver was something I'd seen in myself, that it took me to know me.
Catherine Lacey
#71. random thoughts allow words to play, to the writer it means to twist & turn the words to create a masterpiece that no one else has ever done.
Jeniann Bowers
#72. Harvard coach Bill Reid would later credit Teddy Roosevelt with saving football. But words in a rule book are one thing. Someone had to show the nation a new way to play the game. The Carlisle Indians did that.
Steve Sheinkin
#73. Some habits, in other words, matter more than others in remaking businesses and lives. These are "keystone habits," and they can influence how people work, eat, play, live, spend, and communicate.
Charles Duhigg
#74. I spent the better part of the afternoon and evening playing Scrabble with Deacon. I think he regretted asking me to play, because I was one of those Scrabble players - the kind who played three-letter words every chance I got.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#75. Small people will find your flaw and make it huge; big people will find your flaw and block it out completely, by sitting next to you. Therefore, hang out with big people.
Shannon L. Alder
#76. You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'
Gail Collins
#77. That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.
Gayle Forman
#78. In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.
Lia Ices
#79. I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego ... I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.
Neil Simon
#80. I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.
Charles De Lint
#81. Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
Damian Lewis
#82. Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play.
King Krule
#83. Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words, and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.
Edmund Burke
#84. Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
Doris Lessing
#85. A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
Aaron Sorkin
#86. Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.
John Millington Synge
#87. I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.
Natalie Martinez
#88. What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
Steve Wozniak
#89. You wanted to play, baby." Soft words that had her freezing in place. "So we'll play.
Nalini Singh
#90. Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.
Davis Miller
#91. Don't be scared," said a voice behind me.
Those must certainly fall into the category of Famous Last Words, the sort that are the last thing you hear before your death. (Along with "it isn't loaded" and "he only wants to play.") Of course I was terrible scared.
Kerstin Gier
#92. As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
Philip Yancey
#93. I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
Douglas Coupland
#94. Fuck off!
I used to have a way with women.
If the word fuck came out to play, it was always followed by me and then words like harder, please, and my friend, more.
Those were the days.
Emma Chase
#95. I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why
Jennifer Lawrence
#96. You're robbing the cradle, then," he said. Humor filled his face. "You're a cougar."
Laughter burbled out of me, part of it relieved nerves, the other part surprise at the play on words. "I'm not that kind of cougar," I said, my tone lofty.
Faith Hunter
#97. We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
Niels Bohr
#98. I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#99. I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to.
Magda Gerber
#100. God gave us music, so we play with our words.
Talib Kweli
