#words

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#conversation #fit #holding #kid #know

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words. ↗

— Tim Conway

#enjoy #four-letter #hear #knowing #lot

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#course #flowery #give #hunger #inequality

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them. ↗

— Patty Duke

#breathe #creative #interpret #into #life

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#approbation #between #chief #deeds #difference

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#explanations #harvard #tired #words

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#books #did #falling #falling in love #i

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#certainly #charge #experience #head #i

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies. ↗

— Tina Turner

#conversations #heaven #i #notes #symphonies