Words Quotes - page 11

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. (Franz Liszt)

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.

Tomas Tranströmer

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.

Anatole France

To die is to become like a child, at last one knows nothing, nothing of death and nothing of life, only that all distances are equally long and all words unintelligible but beautiful.

Stig Dagerman

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle.

James Russell Lowell

'What is good for a bootless bene' With these dark words begins my tale And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail.

William Wordsworth

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Anne Frank

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Confucius

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass. (Lewis Mumford)

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen librarya company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

Ellen DeGeneres

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Theodore Dreiser

I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words - the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture.

Martha Graham

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Kurt Vonnegut

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, "tell the truth." If I got three more words, I'd add: "All the time."

Randy Pausch

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Eric Bogosian

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.

Victor Hugo

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. (Conor Oberst)

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

TV-a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.

Goodman Ace

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Richard Russo

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Lord Byron

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