Words Quotes - page 12

Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. (Che Guevara)
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. View quote
Eric Hoffer
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning” of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea. View quote
Paul Tillich
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. View quote
Archibald MacLeish
Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true! View quote
Dave Barry
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. View quote
James Joyce
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. (William Shakespeare)
Men of few words are the best men. View quote
William Shakespeare
I understand a fury in your words,But not the words. View quote
William Shakespeare
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. View quote
Heinz Guderian
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions. View quote
Baron d'Holbach
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Mark Twain
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. View quote
Stéphane Mallarmé
There is a southern proverb fine words butter no parsnips. View quote
Walter Scott
Eating words has never given me indigestion. View quote
Winston Churchill
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. (Winston Churchill)
Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom elsewhere they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer nonsense. View quote
Aldous Huxley
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. View quote
Noam Chomsky
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul. View quote
Christopher Morley