Words quotes

Inspirational Quotes: Discover the most powerful and uplifting words to enlighten your soul and motivate your journey.

Put some alcohol in your mouth to block with words from coming out.

- Ron Swanson

First rule. No conversation lasts longer than 100 total words.

- Ron Swanson

It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have.

- Kelly Hu

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

- George Byron

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

- Judy Holliday

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

- Jon Corzine

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

- Betty Buckley

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

- Kenneth Branagh

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

- Sallust

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

- Terry Prachett

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

- William Shakespeare

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

- Rick Wright

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

- Menander

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

- Confucius

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

- Leslie Stephen

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

- Tom Glazer

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

- Carol Shields

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

- Evelyn Waugh

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

- Jon Fishman

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

- Wally Lamb

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

- Cofer Black

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

- Tina Turner

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

- Anne McCaffrey

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

- Gilbert Murray

Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you.

- Richard Donner

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

- Roland Barthes

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

- Frank Luntz

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

- John Abizaid

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

- Bianca Jagger

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

- William Shirley