513 quotes found
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
“I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.”
“In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.”
“If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.”
“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.”
“I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and ...”
“Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.”
“Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.”
“We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ”
“You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.”
“Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.”
“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”
“These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.”
“The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.”
“If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.”
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
“After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, ...”
“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 bei...”
“There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'”
“At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.”
