I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect puri...
Words are the money of fools.
The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.
Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.
I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or someth...
I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.
I am a lover of words.If your words don't play with me,nothing else in you will.
Words can inspire and words can destroy. Choose your words well.
People need to understand that not everyone is out to hurt you. There are still some great people in this world. Do not allow yourself to believe that everyone is up to no good. Just because you have...
Every sword that was dripping the blood became a pen. Every word that was written in it became a poetry.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.
People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.
My head is full of fireand grief and my tongueruns wild, piercedwith shards of glass.
I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.
'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you...