Famous Quotes: Words

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
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In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
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With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
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I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
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I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
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The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.
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The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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