Words Quotes
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The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
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You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
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I've titled this book 'Eighty Is Not Enough' not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.
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What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.
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I can’t say anything. There are no words.
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Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.
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What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
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I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
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I like the old words better. They're like old friends.
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I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.
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Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.
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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.
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I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food—they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. “My brother is in prison.” Those words tasted bitter.
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
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In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.
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'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.
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I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.
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I do feel a wave come over me when I hear those two words, 'Star' and 'Wars,' said together. I feel tense, shut up, and stare into the middle distance.
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Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!
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I don't believe in the power of words.
