Quotes of: Words Keyword

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Voltaire

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

Willie Aames

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

Alex Chilton

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Chuck Palahniuk

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

Geddy Lee

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

Harold Pinter

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

John Ciardi

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

Jon Corzine

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Jimi Hendrix

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Enoch Powell

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

Ellen G. White

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Evelyn Waugh

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

Francesca Annis

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Federico Fellini

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

George Ade

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

Greg Behrendt

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Craig Claiborne

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles de Gaulle

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

Coleman Hawkins

It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.

C.F. Heller