It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.
Who has words at the right moment?
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'
Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.
Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.
The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.
I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.
But words - words are not enough!
Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
