#words

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#customs #existing #merely #people #roman

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#give #music #poem #said #translation

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words. ↗

— Charles Manson

#another #courtroom #fight #going #i

All the people that criticised me should eat their words. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#eat #me #people #should #their

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that. ↗

— Yann Martel

#describing #good #image #mind #reader

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#born #bring #concerning #depths #diminution

When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983. ↗

— Eric Massa

#america #bill #cap-and-trade #ceremony #chief

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#careful #celebrity #forget #gets #hand

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#i #necessarily #respect #socialism #think