He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated, and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Robert Walton in “Letter 3”. Walton is introducing Victor Frankenstein, whom he describes as a kind, cultured and educated scientist.
A president’s words have the power to move markets. They can start wars or broker peace. They can summon our better angels or awaken our worst instincts. You simply cannot fake your way through this job. – Michelle Obama On Trump presidency.
George Floyd’s last words, ‘I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,’ they’ve echoed all across this nation, quite frankly around the world. For the president to try to put any other words in the mouth of George Floyd I frankly think is despicable. – Joe Biden On Donald Trump invoking Floyd’s name as he took victory lap on unemployment numbers.
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. – George Orwell 1984. Part 1, Chapter 5. Language specialist Syme to Wilson on how the Party is going to destroy the language and replace Oldspeak (Standard English) with Newspeak. It will be used to control the minds of the citizens.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. – Gustav Mahler
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture. – Henry B. Eyring
Gibberish rap is – I freestyle all the time, just hangin’ out with friends. And sometimes when I’m freestyling, I’ll lose my flow, you know, but I’ll still wanna – I don’t wanna just stop rapping because I lose my flow. So I’ll just put in nonsense words till I can bring in regular words again. – Hannibal Buress
It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me. – Gherman Titov
Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially name-calling. ‘You’re dangerous!’ ‘Deceived.’ ‘A false prophet.’ ‘A compromiser!’ Charges like these by young-earth leaders, both spoken and implied, are intended to discredit, maim, and crush old-earth advocates, including me. – Hugh Ross
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. – Henri Poincare
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. – Helen Dunmore
I could list hundreds of words I’ve come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute. – Gary Jennings
I have to choose my words carefully because I don’t want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day. – Graham Taylor
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too. – Howard Gardner
Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there’s the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward. – Holly Black
When you’re an artist, you’re expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words. – Halsey
You can’t really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete’s worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel. – Greg Rusedski
My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells. – Harry Lloyd
My first words were always about food – I grew up in northern California, and when I was 10 years old, I had my own pretzel cart business. – Guy Fieri
Whether someone wants to learn the words to a new Lady Gaga song they heard on the radio or to verify the lyrics to ‘Blinded by the Light’, the LyricWiki community delivers. – Gil Penchina
When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable – sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell? – Guillermo Diaz
I like getting ‘Times’ articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words. – Hannibal Buress
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them. – Harry Connick, Jr.
The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group. – Henry Bonilla
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. – Hannah Arendt