Quotes About Words

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.

When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain rhythms that I hear on drums, I try to emulate with my words, dropping on the same patterns that them beats or them notes would hit.

Actions always speak louder than words, especially when they're peaceful actions.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.

Most people are oriented to words. When the public hears a melody, unless you put words to It, it takes longer to penetrate. It's always been like that, but I don't know why.

People don't even realize the power the mind has over the body in the way you perceive things. Change your thoughts, change your reality. Words are powerful - every thought and every word we think has an effect on the body.

I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.

According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.

dans une bibliothèque] Sentiment que tout était écrit, décrit, expliqué, mais surtout "révélé", pour peu qu'on sût trouver le bon chemin de mots. Sentiment de pouvoir, au hasard, ouvrir l'une des millions de portes du monde.

El que habla, siembra. El que escucha, recoge.

T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.

Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Thus it is that most people seem to suffer more from hard words than hard deeds, and are more excited by insult than by actual hurt. What we do to our enemies in war is done of necessity, but the evil we say of them seems to spring from an excess of spite.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Y mis palabras se sentían arrancadas de su jaula de silencio cuando las atraías con el alpiste dorado de tu ternura inmensa.

How lovely they were, those long summer nights: the words and the silences, the sunsets and the stars.

Good things not spoke but bad things many spokes...but good things more than powerful silent.

Good things not spoke but bad things many spokes...but it's more than powerful silent.

How could anyone find words to describe Justinian's character?