#words

Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#barack #barack obama #began #came #change

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#audience #forget #i #i always #laugh

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#considered #consist #entirely #himself #muslims

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating. ↗

— Jack White

#anything #copying #hate #hear #hope

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#enormous #experience #expressed #mature #our

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#deeds #only #out #passed #speak

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. ↗

— Robin Williams

#change the world #ideas #matter #people #tell

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#day #i #imagine #journalists #long

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words. ↗

— Debra Winger

#else #however #script #someone #ultimately

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#been #compose #computer #i #i can