A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.
The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
Search is now more than a web destination and a few words plugged into a box. Search is a mode, a method of interaction with the physical and virtual worlds. What is Siri but search? What are apps like Yelp or Foursquare, but structured search machines? Search has become embedded into everything and has reached well beyond its web-based roots.
You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.
It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.
