Words Quotes
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The question must also be raised as to whether we have the actual words of Jesus in any Gospel.
John Shelby Spong
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Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.
John Sandford
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The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.
Dan Abnett
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A missile attack is federal. A missile attack is not a local responsibility. Confirmation and notification of something like a missile attack should reside with the agency that knows first and knows for sure: in other words, the people who know should be the people who tell us.
Brian Schatz
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I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.
Bob Dylan
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
Nikolai Gogol
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost
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What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
Emil Cioran
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When you're a kid, and someone is your best friend, you almost don't need words. It's almost like puppies in a - frolicking in a garden or something. You don't articulate stuff. You just live it.
Claire Messud
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I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.
George Strait
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All words, in every language, are metaphors.
Marshall McLuhan
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Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you'll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.
Oprah Winfrey
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I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
Alan Alda
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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
James Joyce
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I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.
Lia Ices
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
Kenneth Branagh
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Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
David Lodge
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This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A picture is poem without words.
Confucius
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Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.
Ole Hallesby
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I read everything and anything related to being queer. I found solace in reading authors like Audre Lorde and bell hooks, who would become my activist staples - their words helped me grow up and taught me how to be bold and courageous. By studying them, I came to understand that being young and queer and black would not be easy.
Patrisse Cullors
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I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.
P. D. James
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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