All Quotes

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.
‐‐ Rik Mayall

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
‐‐ Carol Burnett

Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
‐‐ Ada Yonath

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.
‐‐ Inga Muscio

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
‐‐ James Howe

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
‐‐ Ninon de L'Enclos

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
‐‐ Joshua Reynolds

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
‐‐ Herbert Kaufman

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Words take on many different meanings.
‐‐ Erin McKean

Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
‐‐ Nancy Kress

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.
‐‐ Nancy Duarte

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
‐‐ George Steiner

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
‐‐ Amy Tan

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
‐‐ Paul Muldoon

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
‐‐ Mother Teresa

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
‐‐ Jon Corzine

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
‐‐ Jon Corzine

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
‐‐ Muhammad Iqbal

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material into an hour as I possibly could word count-wise.
‐‐ Bo Burnham

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.
‐‐ Sophie Marceau

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

Work alone is noble.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
‐‐ James Whistler

Work and children I could have. But the husband was just too much.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
‐‐ David Sarnoff

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
‐‐ Theodor Reik

Work and play go hand in hand. A lot of people want to work, work, and work until 40, and then relax. Who says you'll get to 40? Or 50? Who knows what'll happen in the next five minutes? The only reality is the present. And if you can't learn to live in the moment, you'll never be content.
‐‐ Gautam Singhania

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.
‐‐ Joe Hill

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
‐‐ Andre Gide

'Work and wait', 'work and wait' is what God says to us in creation.
‐‐ Josiah Gilbert Holland

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
‐‐ Ramakrishna

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
‐‐ Og Mandino

Work aside, I think would have ended up in the U.S. because I like being here a lot. I really do.
‐‐ Raza Jaffrey

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.
‐‐ David Byrne

Work at being a humble person.
‐‐ John Templeton

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
‐‐ Camille Pissarro

Work begets work.
‐‐ Brion James

Work by Maria Blasco, Calvin Harley, Michael Fossel, Woodring Wright and Shay and Ronald Depinho in particular are of interest but there are literally thousands of articles relating to telomerase, telomeres and the biology behind it.
‐‐ Liz Parrish

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.
‐‐ Terry Gross

Work certainly does help fill a void.
‐‐ Judi Dench

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.
‐‐ Peter Milligan