Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
Where I think the American actor is slightly at a disadvantage is in vocal technique. I don't think that words are their friend in the same way that English actors are used to using words: understanding about consonance and how to shade a vowel to show emotional color.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words.
For me, words are just words, nothing else.
In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
Physics has the cutest words.
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.
I'm cautious about a lot of words.
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
