Words Quotes
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If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words.
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I have always, always loved words.
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Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.
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Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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His words stroll out like well-dressed senior citizens on an afternoon walk.
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Airy elaboration just loses everyone in a fog of words.
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When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.
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Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
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An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.
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No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
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I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.
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As soon as the words slip past my lips, I wish I could grab them with my hands and crush them in my fists. But I can’t. The words are there.
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My first single was based around the mishearing of the words 'make believe' - 'I thought she said maple leaves.' That kind of stuff is very central to my music and my life.
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I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily.
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To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
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I’m not as intellectual as my daughter. She says bigger words than I … I don’t even know what they mean… But she’s so amusing to me and it’s wonderful to be around her.
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I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak. That is all I know how to do, but that is my true subject.
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Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.
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Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.
