No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
Words are the money of fools.
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'
Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
Much has been written about Trump's style of speech, which linguists have said is often unintelligible yet deeply compelling. Orwell's famous 1946 essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' centers on the use of abstract words, often by politicians, to obscure reality.
Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.
Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
Words are loaded pistols.
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
Deed, not words shall speak me.
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.
Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.
Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I'm not having fun.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
We got rid of Muammar Gaddafi. I never thought I would be able to write these words.
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.
I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.