The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Music is only love looking for words.
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
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.
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.