Quotes About Words

when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.

No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

The FBI is urging all Americans to beware of any letters or packages that have badly misspelled words. Man, this is going to be terrible news for the rap industry.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.