Ernest Klein Quotes
To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.
Ernest Klein
Quotes to Explore
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
Kate Forsyth
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
Damian Lewis
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
Eckhart Tolle
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Tone matters more than words.
Kangana Ranaut
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
Eddie Izzard
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Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
Flavius Josephus
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
Pat Conroy
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Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
Ibrahim Hooper
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I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.
Iggy Azalea
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I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.
Garth Nix
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I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.
Zach Gilford
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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.
Abraham Lincoln
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Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.
Madeleine L'Engle
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While I was held prisoner, sweet inspiration educated me and laws were imparted to me in a speech which had no words...
Taliesin
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A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver - in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
E. M. Forster
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The male is a biological accident: the y(male) gene is an incomplete x(female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion.... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.
Valerie Solanas
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When all is said and done, science is about things and theology is about words. Things behave in the same way everywhere, but words do not. ... Theology works in one culture alone. If you have not grown up in Polkinghorne's culture, where words such as 'incarnation' and 'trinity' have a profound meaning, you cannot share his vision.
Freeman Dyson
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Let's step back and think about the likely outcome of a scenario that involves the words 'James Nicoll', 'a box of sharp needles' and 'possibly without ever having achieved full consciousness' for a moment, shall we?
James Nicoll
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I get inspired by a lot of different stuff. My father is a huge music fan.
Kygo
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.
Marian Wright Edelman
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An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
Anthony Bourdain
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To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.
Ernest Klein
