Words Quotes

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

~ Colm Tóibín

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

~ Anthony Browne

Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there's nothing more satisfying.

~ Kate Klise

A picture is a poem without words.

~ Horace

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

~ Henry Moore

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

~ Newt Gingrich

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

~ Kathleen Troia Mcfarland

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

~ Henry David Thoreau

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

~ Michael Cimino

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

~ Helen Hunt Jackson

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

~ Stella Mccartney

I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.

~ Ginni Rometty

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

~ Andrew Clements

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

~ Brandon Flowers

I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.

~ Michael Trevino

My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean 'spring' and 'tiger.' So, it's very unique!

~ Pom Klementieff

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when she sings. It was just about her voice and the words she was singing - no strings attached or silly hair or costumes, just a woman singing her heart out. I feel like that doesn't happen that much anymore.

~ Ariana Grande

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

~ Ronald Reagan

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

~ Benjamin Netanyahu

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.

~ Antonin Scalia

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

~ Ann Coulter

Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.

~ Regina Brett

Words are the money of fools.

~ Thomas Hobbes

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

~ Arthur M. Schlesinger

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

~ Sandra Bullock

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

~ Lance Henriksen

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.

~ Alan Paton

Let deeds match words.

~ Plautus

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

~ James Newman

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

~ Mo Udall

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.

~ Frank Delaney

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

~ Sophocles

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run.

~ Mark Cuban

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

~ Virat Kohli

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

~ Buddha