Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. — Ellen Hopkins
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. — Sarah Bernhardt
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. — Gore Vidal
Words have the power to inspire, to unite, and to ignite change. — Alexei Navalny
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. — Elie Wiesel
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Short Favorite Words Quotes
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me) — Eddy Arnold
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa
There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty. — Matilda Joslyn Gage
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone. — Moroccan Proverbs
Where words fail, music speaks. — Hans Christian Andersen
Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it. — Dexter Gordon
Soft words win hard hearts. — Proverbs
Kind words may be short... but their echoes are endless. — Mother Theresa
Your words bring me joy. Let the two of us unite to bring forth a world of peace and virtue. — Sayings
The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.' — Pat Conroy
Favorite Words Image Quotes
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Favorite Quotes
One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette' — Matthew Healy
Take a deep breath, listen to your favorite song and realize everything is gonna be okay, nothing is permanent. — Camila Cabello
Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes — Immanuel Kant
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy — Thomas Bulfinch
Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating. — CM Punk
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture. — Lauryn Hill
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places. — Stefon Harris
Favorites Quotes
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second. — Mattie Stepanek
The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. — Kevin Gates
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
There's something to be said for useless
days. You know, those days when you
have nothing to do and all day to do it ...
Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink
may not cure the world's problems but it
can really get your head in the right place.
Those are my favorite kind of days. — Kenny Chesney
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love. — Octavio Paz
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart? — Chet Baker
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music. — Chance the Rapper
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
I spend most of my evenings grinding into the early morning to my favorite music. — Alex Jones
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
Favorites Things Quotes
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica. — Abraham Lincoln
Nelson Mandela was a hard-core communist mass bomber. His wife says her favorite thing to do is hang tires over children's heads and necklace them. — Alex Jones
Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing. — Chris Rock
Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle. — Dale Earnhardt
I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. — Tommy Lee
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. — Diane Arbus
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. — Diane Arbus
Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed. — Jennifer Morrison
I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure. — Zoe Kravitz
Favourite Things Quotes
I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion - and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way. — Melanie Martinez
I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design. — Paula Scher
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. — Albert Einstein
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. — George Bernard Shaw
Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe! — Ikkyu
Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you can't get back into it, or you make a mess. It's not my favourite thing - pencil is more my medium than wet paint. — Cy Twombly
I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her. — Aretha Franklin
I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio. — Arne Jacobsen
My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable. — Billy Childish
Favorite Song Quotes
You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again. — TobyMac
You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months. — Anna Kendrick
A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning. — Taylor Swift
We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice. — Shawn Amos
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs. — Stephen Malkmus
My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is. — Tyler, The Creator
My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people. — Jeff Buckley
I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them. — Deborah Cox
'Free Fallin'' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it. — Tom Petty
The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is so free of impurities. You get drugged by it, like when you listen to one of your favorite songs. The light there is a mood-enhancing substance. — Jon Krakauer
My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white. — Elizabeth Taylor
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. — Gerard Way
The United States is the most prosperous nation in the world, and yet our citizenship has been comprehensively reduced to consumerism... Buy and ye shall be happy. But what have we truly purchased? In the words of my favorite poet, Henry David Thoreau, 'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,' our lives prostrate at the altar of the false gods of our instant-gratification society. — Rich Roll
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. — Beverly Cleary
Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves. — Frederic Farrar
My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'. — John Wayne
Watch your thoughts, they become words. — Lao Tzu
Normal is absolutely my least favorite word. — Carolyn Heilbrun
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it. — Rumer Godden
We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words — Max Lucado
My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am. — Harrison Salisbury
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. — Henry Fielding
It was he [Vincent] who helped me to accommodate my life in such a way that I can be at peace with myself. Serenity - this was the favorite word of both of them [Vincent and Theo], the something they considered the highest. Serenity - I have found it. — Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth. — Pope John Paul II
I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and I close my eyes and the connotations or the image I get in my head, combine with the sound of them - sometimes phonetics. I'm just stringing those together. — Stephen Malkmus
You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours. — David Lee Roth
Often in the morning I will sit in a favorite chair in my study with a cup of coffee, with classical music playing, not trying to form a prayer with words but waiting, listening, until perhaps I sense the Spirit bringing to the surface a word from God. Then I offer just a simple 'Thank you.' — Leighton Ford
I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words. — Kristin Kreuk
I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman. — Anne Waldman
My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others. — Matthew Perry
If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden. — Joyce Tenneson
When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words. — Violet Duke
[My favorite word is] and. It is so hopeful. — Margaret Atwood
My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means. — Geri Halliwell
When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision. — Madeline Miller
Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past. — Dorothy Riera
Let's look at the list of top 10 words that statistically stick out in the most favorite TEDTalks and in the least favorite TEDTalks. So if you came here to talk about how French coffee will spread happiness in our brains, that's a go. — Sebastian Wernicke
Adventure comes with no guarantees or promises. Risk and reward are conjoined twins—and that’s why my favorite piece of advice needs translation but no disclaimers: Fortes fortuna juvat. ‘Fortune favors the brave,’ the ancient Roman dramatist Terrence declared. In other words, there are many good reasons not to toss your life up in the air and see how it lands. Just don’t let fear be one of them. — Mary South
There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word. — Brett Hull
They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject. — Linda Fiorentino
For me, if I saw my favorite artist in the store, I would probably just tell them three words and walk away. — Lil Peep
I'm definitely seeing more and more new people at shows, which is exciting. It's nice for me, because it's a fresh start. I don't feel as obligated to play old favorite songs - it feels like I'm free to try new things because I'm meeting people for the first time. But there's a lot of people who are showing up and they know all the words to the first album and they're requesting songs from the second album. — Willy Mason
All of a sudden I got a vision of Guernica - Pablo Picasso's painting, which is one of my all-time favorite paintings in the world. I remember reading that it was very controversial at the time - some people said even used the word "childlike drawing" - and all of a sudden I thought, "This is like Guernica in Los Angeles!" And then it all made sense to me. It was all the elements that are the Southland. — Beth Grant
I think the best live shows take you out of the moment into somewhere else and I really...This can be true of recorded music too but my favorite live experience is sort of this transcendendent - is that the word? Transcendental? — Dan Deacon
In fact, I think that's my favorite word and the most important word when it comes to relationships: equality. — Alicia Keys
Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word. — Brian Chippendale
When temptation comes, you can invent a delete key in your mind- perhaps the words from a favorite hymn. Your mind is in charge; your body is the instrument of your mind. When some unworthy thought pushes into your mind, replace it with your delete key. Worthy music is powerful and can help you control your thoughts. — Boyd K. Packer
The bottom line is just that Rickey Henderson was my favorite player. His flair, his style-the key word is impact-he's an impact player. — Jimmy Rollins
For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you. — Garrison Keillor
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word. — Tim Gunn
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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