Quotes About Words

The way I know my father is not through media. The way I know my father is in number of different ways. It's through the people who knew him well, his friends, my family. It's also through his own words, because he wrote voluminously.

You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.

I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start.

I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves.

With 'Words, Words, Words,' that show was me experimenting with something, and then there was a clear direction for me.

My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.

The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the rich past of Tamil music.

Words are everything in this life - they can tear you down and abuse you, or they can make you feel so wonderful and loved.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

I read a lot until was about 12, then as a teenager I was more interested in kissing boys. But I kept a diary for a few years, so words were a big part of my teenage years.

You can't go on telling, 'I am in love.'

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.

When I speak, I speaks.