Words Quotes
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In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
Johnny Mathis
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Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space.
Geoff Nicholson
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It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.
Hector Berlioz
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My mom told me many times that when you are outside, you have to be careful what you are saying, and don't repeat the words of what you hear at home.
Lee Hyeon-seo
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The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.
Chris Sacca
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It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.
Hillary Clinton
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Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
Harvey Pekar
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But words are more powerful than anything.
Jennifer Donnelly
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When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
John Lennon The Beatles
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Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Anaxagoras
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Men and women are from different zip codes. All guys understand - well this is just my opinion - you guys don't understand with words. You guys understand with actions.
Tahiry Jose
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Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.
J. D. Salinger
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The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it's a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can't pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it's probably not good for you.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
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She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's dogged and will make sure the average woman and man is represented as well as making sure that our financial system stays afloat. In other words, she gets it and she has represented the financial district, but she also represents the average person and definitely the average woman.
Eleanor Smeal
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Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.
Lucy Dacus
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Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.
Jane Lindskold
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Maybe my dad just didn't need words to get by in the world. I wasn't like that. Well, I was like that on the outside, pretending not to need words. But I wasn't like that on the inside. I'd figured something out about myself: on the inside, I wasn't like my dad at all. On the inside I was more like Dante. That really scared me.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Dennis Potter
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Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.
Peter Lamborn Wilson
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Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.
John W. Dawson
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If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord
Uthman ibn Affan
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As long as words a different sense will bear, And each may be his own interpreter, Our airy faith will no foundation find; The word's a weathercock for every wind.
John Dryden
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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.
Charles R. Swindoll
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In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.
Eliphas Levi