Quotes of: Words Keyword

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Denis Johnson

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

David Mitchell

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.

Dean Martin

Live a life like a beautiful song, touch every heart with loving words and memorable music.

Debasish Mridha

Those who think compromise is a four letter word need to go back to school

JOHNNY CORN

Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.

Josemaría Escrivá

You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.

Joseph Eastwood

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

Janet Jackson

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Pat Conroy

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

Lyle Lovett

[from trailer] Max Vandenburg: Words are life, Liesel. All those pages, they're for you to fill.

The Book Thief

I grew up in church, so every time I say certain words, I'm like, 'I'm going to get in trouble.'

Craig Robinson

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Erin McKean

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

Nicole Krauss

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

Yehuda Amichai

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

Eartha Kitt

Talia al Ghul: [her last words] My... father's... work... is... done.

The Dark Knight Rises

Wade Gustafson: I'm not talking about your damn word, Jerry.

Fargo