Words Quotes - page 6

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. (Herman Melville)
Nature is a temple where living columns Let slip from time to time uncertain words; Man finds his way through forests of symbols Which regard him with familiar gazes. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. View quote
Havelock Ellis
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. View quote
Antonio Porchia
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. View quote
Ansel Adams
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. View quote
Alan Perlis
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. View quote
Francis of Assisi
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say? (Toni Morrison)
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. View quote
Sophocles
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. View quote
Alan Turing
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. View quote
Gustav Mahler
The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas-in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. View quote
Winston Churchill
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. View quote
Winston Churchill
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. View quote
Robin Williams
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. (Charlie Chaplin)
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. View quote
Voltaire
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words. View quote
Josh Billings
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds. View quote
René Daumal