I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
Jayne Anne Phillips
MusicWordsSoundWriteLineWeight
The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.
Anne Hathaway
BeautyMusicWordsYouWhereWhole
Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an idea is confirmed by the difference between the 'Soave sia il vento' and 'Kentucky Woman.' We have different words for 'art' and 'idea' because they are two different things.
Mark Helprin
WorkArtWomanWordsMoreKentucky
An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.
Robert Smithson
WordsEmotionGlanceCertain
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal
BeautifulWordsLanguageYouCommon
When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.
Rudy Giuliani
HopeWordsNew YorkPeopleCityYou
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
Chow Yun-Fat
CultureWordsMeStrangeUnderstand
I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.
Pauley Perrette
MemoriesWordsRacismDeepEarlyUp
Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
Joe Nichols
WordsMouthNeverOutComingThose
To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.
Junior Seau
WordsToughSpeakStoryInformation
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles
WordsPresentPleasureBringEven
Most people know me from 'The Office,' where I played a guy who grunted out three or four words an episode and was kind of a knucklehead, and so I think it's surprising for people to see me do something like this. But Shakespeare is what I grew up wanting to do.
David Denman
WordsPeopleMeThinkKnowThree
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.
Joshua Ferris
WordsMovingLookingForwardBetter
I grew up saying, 'I want to be famous,' but that was just the words that you used. As I got older, I understood that what I really meant was, 'I want to be successful.'
Ashleigh Murray
WordsSayingFamousYouWantUp
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.
Marilynne Robinson
LifeWomenTeacherMyselfWords
In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.
Robert Sternberg
WordsSchoolPeopleGoNewWill
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
ArtWordsColorSayWayThings
When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
Mary Szybist
MyselfWordsPoetryMeYoungSay
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
Christopher Hitchens
RelationshipWordsI AmLosingWorld
The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.
Shaun Tan
WordsMePicturesBecauseLastText
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.
Joanna Scott
WordsLanguageMeaningTryingRules
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Jane Goodall
WordsThinkLanguageYouGetStill
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Stuart Chase
WordsBelieveMeaningFindTryHard
I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
Dave Matthews
RespectWordsSocialismThinkBad
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