Words Quotes
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I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.
David Shields
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If you're anxious about the state of the world, that's understandable. But trade your anxiety for the blessing of hearing the words of Scripture, keeping them in faith and obedience, and remembering the time is near.
David Jeremiah
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It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.
Denis Lavant
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
George Steiner
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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare
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The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state!
T. H. White
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I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Action achieves more than words.
Euripides
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I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.
Alexa Vega
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I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.
Jerry Pournelle
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
Emil Cioran
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What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
Augustus Hare
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
Charles Bukowski
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As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.
Vaclav Havel
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I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
Jennifer Lopez
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Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.
Ziggy Marley
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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.
Douglas Brunt
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Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington.
Conan O'Brien
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I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.
Marlee Matlin
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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.
Pythagoras
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it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night
Banana Yoshimoto
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus
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To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
Alphonsus Liguori