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" Quotes and Sayings About words

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

No man Means Says Words
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

One means Says Slippery Thought
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Artist Energy Expressing Forces
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon Most beautiful Words
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

Around Carry Certain Certain Point
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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Emotions Human Human Emotions I Love
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The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

Common Constantly Fathers Founding
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Man thinks Mouthing Hard words Things
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Against Desire Fingers Had
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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

Write Wind blows Command words
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A picture is a poem without words.

Picture Poem Words
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Words Accents Grief Assuaged
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To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

Africa Continent Drawn Genetically
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
Cold Her Mind Polished
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Big Fear Make Those
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
Big Common Philosophy Sense
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I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

Write abundantly Next step Struggle
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Being Different Different Things May
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Always Cannot Control Master
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn’t need pen or paper – my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

First album Need pen My memory
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POWER is not in the show of many WORDS but in the APPROPRIATE use of it.

Power Show Many words Appropriate use
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Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.

Actions Defined Man Words
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

Impossible Remember Long poem Practice
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A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.
Landscape Uglier Admirer How beautiful
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There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words,love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy,the secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Two roads Human happiness Marked Words
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A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Multitude Words No proof Prudent mind
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Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

Many words Wise man Talk Needed
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Poetry Mathematics Rigorous relationship
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words Powerful drug Mankind
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Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of this wilderness?’ It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words: ‘Alas, Alas!

One through Ruined city Lonely bird
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Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end'. Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

Never comment Woman's Rear end Large
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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.

My dad Always taught Care Share
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It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman - for God is Love.Why should we start thinking of a god up in the clouds with wings, if He dwells within us in the spirit of Love?!

The bible Plain words God Created man
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The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.

Good Have done Kind words Spoken
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How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you

You speak Words Image Portray
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A moment's thinking is an hour in words

Moment's thinking An hour In words
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When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

I have Uniqueness Almost impossible In art
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The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

The words Round My mind My body
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Depression it’s real. Be your brothers keeper, pay attention and get involved in your family and friends lives. Stop trolling people. Don’t be a bully. Use kind words to people because u don’t know what someone may be going through.

Depression Real Brothers keeper Pay attention
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Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.

Words Like breath Writing traps Them
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I was just twenty-one and my name was known wherever men sharpened swords. I was a warrior. A sword warrior, and I was proud of it.
My name Whenever men Sharpened swords Warrior
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Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.

Be careful You say Life Death
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There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Power In words Being able Articulate
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Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Kinds words Cost much Accomplish
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Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Words Uncertain things Sound well Mean
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences

Words Communicative Between those Share
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There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say.

No need For words Times Only hint
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forgive these unlearned hands which bruise your tender ribs in coarse hug and stoke thus out of your hearth all the words contained as fire in the belly of coals

Forgive Unlearned hands Bruise Tend ribs
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I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Ever talk Words seems Waste Them true
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No words will ever be enough to thank you all. Yours is a debt of gratitude that we cannot finish paying in a lifetime.

No words Be enough Thank you Gratitude
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