Quotes of: Words Keyword

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Nora Roberts

Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She's phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her - that's how much I love her.

Rutina Wesley

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Walliams

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

E. L. Doctorow

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

A. R. Ammons

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

Ralph Richardson

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

Gerrit Smith

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Walter Scott

Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts is the very definition of the word 'loser.'

Graydon Carter

I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.

Ginni Rometty

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Michelle Rodriguez

Royal Magistrate: The prisoner wishes to say a word. William Wallace: [shouts loud and long] Freedom!

Braveheart

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Tommy Chong

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

Azzedine Alaia

Words work like keys. When you use them appropriately, you can unlock any locked heart

Ahmed Alibage

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Albert Brooks

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Anne Bradstreet

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

Aidan Chambers

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

Alan Colmes

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

Anna Friel

There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation.

Al Gore