Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.
But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
My first job was four words in 'Family Matters.' It was huge!
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
The temple of art is built in words.
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.
If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.
It was enough just to sit there without words.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on a foundation of code - whether it's the codes of letters and words, or the code of bits and algorithms.
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts - I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I used to be able to write 10,000 words a day. It's like, 'Wow, what happened to that?' That's just gone.
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
