Words Quotes
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Whatever I gain from writing lyrics, I feel I lose a little bit for the musical aspect by having that lyrical burden on me. But when I'm liberated from worrying about the words, frankly, I feel I'm a better composer.
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The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.
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The words are frightening - how you're going to build a wall, how you're going to have Mexico pay for it. What does this mean?
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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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The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate.
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A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.
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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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The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying.
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The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?
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Communication feels like it should be the simplest thing, but it's not. Sometimes you don't even understand what you're feeling. You don't know how to put that into words, so how are you suppose to tell the person you love that you're upset.
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Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.
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The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
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I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved.
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I know at least... oh my God, at least 127 words. And I still prefer 'Fuck'.
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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 think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.
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The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.
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Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.
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All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
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In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
