A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.