Quotes of: Words Keyword

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Victor Hugo

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Laura Kightlinger

But at times words can be a dangerous addition to music — they can pin it down. Words imply that the music is about what the words say, literally, and nothing more. If done poorly, they can destroy the pleasant ambiguity that constitutes much of th...

How Music Works

Galatians 5:22-23 describes the fruit of the Spirit, which is "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." Notice the verse does not say the "fruits" of the Spirit, but fruit. The fruit, or result, of t...

Deeper Into the Word: Reflections on 100 Words from the New Testament

Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also ...

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"-...

A Visit from the Goon Squad

English has so many words that do not exist in Sharchhop, but they are mostly nouns, mostly things: machine, airplane, wristwatch. Sharchhop, on the other hand, reveals a culture of material economy but abundant, intricate familial ties and social re...

Jamie Zeppa

King Arthur: Cut down a tree with a herring? It can't be done. [the Knights of Ni scream and cover their ears] Knight 1: Don't say that word! King Arthur: What word? Knight 1: I cannot tell! Suffice to say, is one of the words the Knights of Ni canno...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

What is a valley of tears? He was scourged, covered with spittle, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross. From this valley of tears you must ascend. But ascend where? ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...

Augustine of Hippo

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Chinese

A word once spoken, an army of chariots cannot overtake it.

Chinese

Swiftest horse cannot overtake the word once spoken.

Chinese

Actions speak louder than words.

English

Rather weigh the will of the speaker, than the worth of the words.

English

The walking-stick reaches many lands, the word many more.

Finnish

Do not use words that are too big for your mouth.

Iranian

The wound of words is worse than the wound of swords.

Saudi Arabian

A healthy ear can stand hearing sick words.

Senegalese

A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.

Turkish

The word "enough" does not exist for water, fire, and women.

Ukranian

America’s been ruined by one word: Bankers. No, two words: Bankers and lawyers. Make that three words. Add politicians to that list. Oh, and don’t forget the lobbyists.

The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.