#words

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver. ↗

— Adele

#behind #believe #brain #deliver #difficult

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. ↗

— Aeschylus

#kind #lie #me #must #sickness

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. ↗

— Woody Allen

#fruitful #guy #him #hit #i

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#acts #beginning #completion #consist #gratitude

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels. ↗

— Paul Anka

#got #himself #man #naught #say

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#expressed #given #hear #nothing #senses

I needed real help in New York and I had no friends. I looked up at those buildings, I couldn't see the sky or nothing, and I said, 'Well, there ain't no mountain high enough,' and I just started - the words just fell out of my mouth, really. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#enough #fell #friends #had #help

I put the words down and push them a bit. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#down #i #push #put #them

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#die #forgets #names #needs #vocabulary

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