Quotes About Words

Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.

Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.

I am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with words, to try to tease out of the amorphous, chaotic and wordless part of myself the reason why I was staying on this hilltop in the Ozarks after my first husband, with whom I had started a beekeeping business, and I had divorced.

I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.

You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.

I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.

This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film, but unbelievably, events seem to be outpacing the political imagination.

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.