Words Quotes
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
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Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.
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Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
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I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.
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We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.
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Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.
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Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
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Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
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I have the most beautiful souls in my life supporting me and helping me to follow my dreams. I love them more than I can ever express in words.
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It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.
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Anything or anyone that limits the dream you have for yourself and for your career is just to be dismissed. Do not keep that company, and do not hear those words.
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.
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I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
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And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words.
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I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.
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You can't always make out the words I sing with Soundgarden.
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When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
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For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.
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A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
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Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
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Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.
