Quotes About Words

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D.

I see sad crushed plastic everywhere and put some thoughts composed of words that do not belong together together and feel a little digital hope.

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

I think it would be very good if writers and artists take a stand in electoral politics. They've got the ability to put words together that might reach the ears of the people of the city who vote.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide.

They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.

Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

No one places any trust in the words of the Americans.

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?

I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.