Words Quotes

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
Allen Tate

Knowing, Nor, Says

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.
Mary-Louise Parker

Hurt, Powerful, Wound

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
Steven Bochco

Good, Film, Television

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.
James Beattie

Love, Truth, Sweet

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
Rickie Lee Jones

Imagine, Places, Thin

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
Rebecca Harding Davis

Good, Wise, Heart

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
Malcolm De Chazal

Understand, Why, Expression

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.
Hoda Kotb

Life, Time, Dad

When a company gets into trouble, it should basically have to be resolved, in other words, stockholders lose their money, unsecured bondholders lose their money.
Judd Gregg

Money, Lose, Trouble

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.
Justin Halpern

Life, Cool, Father

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
Jim Capaldi

Everything, Give, Written

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.
Ken Hensley

Write, Rhythm, Melody

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
Robert Frank

Work, Romantic, Past

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.
John Fogerty

Work, Respect, True

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
Herbert Samuel

Head, Rush, Suffered

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

Trying, Remember, Technique

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
Dennis Farina

Fun, British, Slang

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
Donna Leon

Women, Greatest, Times

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
Robert Stone

Time, Someone, Reality

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.
Joseph Pulitzer

Work, Hard, Thinking

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.
Tom Glazer

Women, Great, Men

There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.
Boz Scaggs

Time, Women, Men

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
Harry Mathews

Good, Great, Poetry

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
Alia Shawkat

Reality, Times, Balance

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.
Paul Kantner

Light, Accept, Step

We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.
Paul Kantner

Understand, Able, Nobody

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
Helen Dunmore

Poetry, Writing, Learn

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Helen Dunmore

Through, Tough, Poets

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
Katherine Dunn

Age, Others, Since

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.
Brion James

Movies, Evil, Play

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