Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
I get up every morning and say, 'Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.'
I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.
I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
I love words.
I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
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.
When I realized I could write lyrics and let someone that I knew listen to them, but not know that the song was about them - say it was a girl. I could write this song about how I feel about this girl, I could play it to them. I just loved it, because all of the words would speak to them. I could see them slowly falling in love with me.
I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.
It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.
No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.
My daughter will find some of the sweetest words to tell you that can make a grown man cry. She still gives me the same inspiration. She still motivates me.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?
Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
