Quotes of: Words Keyword

I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

Grant Morrison

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Anne Stevenson

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Jeffery Deaver

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

W. S. Merwin

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Francis of Assisi

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Steve Earle

My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

Patricia McCormick

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

William Hazlitt

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

Susannah York

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

William Shakespeare

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

Branford Marsalis

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

Dave Matthews

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Joan Miro

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

Marcel Marceau

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Roy Harper

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Tom Waits

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Buddy Bizarre: [stomps in time to music on each word] Watch me, faggots!

Blazing Saddles

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams