Quotes by Words They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words. Jay McShann street words music enough The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out. Jeff MacNelly no-words image words best In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try. Jeff Lindsay words down new impossible I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardcover anthology at the age of 6. And I knew more big words than anyone else in the 10th grade. Jeff Lindsay words big age writing Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words. Jeff Lindsay words good good-writing writing I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them. Jeff Kinney them pictures words get Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. Jeff Goodell words risks climate-change change Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander. Jenny Scheinman words understand you experience I've always gone into the studio with a very clear understanding of a song, of the words or, if it's an instrumental piece, of the melodies, and that never changes. Jenny Scheinman words never understanding song My songs are somewhere between story and situation. There's also character and mood. I'm an intuitive writer, both with instrumentals and songs with words. Jenny Scheinman words situation mood character I love words; I love poetry. Jessica Steen words i-love poetry love We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics. Jessye Norman lyrics musicians words responsibility I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle. Jim Crace words think you spray My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes. Jim Crace words man people way There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads. Jim Mattis words believe people fall I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one. Jim Sturgess words name singing want I think that's the magic of any part - unravelling the mystery of what kind of person your guy is based on the words he says and the actions that he does. Jim Sarbh words think magic mystery Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university. Jimmy Breslin words you college morning There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope. Jo Bonner lose words never hope Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.' Joan Ganz Cooney words big bird children «89101112131415161718»