Words Quotes
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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: 'Byron is dead!'
Jane Welsh Carlyle -
Words will never be enough to quantify and qualify the many magnitudes of human-caused destruction.
Clemantine Wamariya
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I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.
Nicholas Sparks -
There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.
Jeff Buckley -
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
Joseph Addison -
The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.
Piet Mondrian -
In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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I know at least... oh my God, at least 127 words. And I still prefer 'Fuck'.
Billy Connolly -
Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.
William Craig Zwick -
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.
William Faulkner -
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
Amy Waldman -
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 -
It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.
Janet McTeer
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When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.
Brad Feld -
There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you... And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.
Yasmin Mogahed -
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
Anthony Holden -
Say something worth the words.
Tracy Chevalier -
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
Harry Robbins "Bob" Haldeman -
I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.
Katherine Dunn
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When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.
Werner Heisenberg -
Weapons are less harmful than words.
Asghar Ali Engineer -
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage.
Joanna Scott -
The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'
Aziz Ansari