Quotes About Words

My mom and grandma always told me: if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. It's something everyone needs to be more conscious about. Putting more positive energy out into the world would be so beneficial.

It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster.

You need interesting content that entertains or informs - preferably both. You want people to look forward to your posts and come back for more. People want to follow you. They want to hear your words and see your vision.

New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Criticism does not constitute violence.

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

Style without content is bad style.

Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.

They talk most who have the least to say.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Talk is cheap if it doesn't motivate action.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

I was sort of a loner as a kid, so radio was where I turned for companionship. I loved the music and how the DJs talked about the artists and used words to paint pictures to evoke emotion.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

See, Padam Kumar thinks and talks in Tamil and English. So for him, the words in 'Supari' were less important than how they were spoken.