- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Struggle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
- Energies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't judge my effectiveness by how many words I say. I think liberals often see nuances in things... Conservatives tend to see things in black and white. It gives them an air of certainty and conviction that might make them more comfortable to watch.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters - words have to be used to express that, and I love that about theater.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020