Words Quotes
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Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
John Bunyan
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The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
Eva Hoffman
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A dictionary is a reference book that lists the words of one or more languages, usually in alphabetical order, along with information about their spelling, pronunciation, grammatical status, meaning, history, and use.
David Crystal
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When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around.
Markus Zusak
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If Trump's own words didn't convince you what a loathsome person he is, certainly nothing that I say or do will sway you.
George Perez
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
Francois Fenelon
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I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.
Leah LaBelle
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We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.
Benjamin Clementine
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I’m not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I’m interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That’s the way music works for me. It’s purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That’s just it.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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And Mr. Ruff could have answered that question directly. He did not and his failure to do so speaks a thousand words.
Charles Ruff
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There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.
Barry Malzberg
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Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.
Bertrand Russell
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It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.
Caroline Polachek
Chairlift
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Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.
Linwood Barclay
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That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.
Luke Davies
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I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
Brendan Behan
