Words Quotes
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
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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
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Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)
William Shakespeare
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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.
Beth Revis
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My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
Pierre Loti
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
Pearl S. Buck
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It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
John Wilkins
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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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I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Meg Rosoff
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What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
Nizar Qabbani
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When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
Andrzej Wajda
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Words can not express the joy of new life.
Hermann Hesse
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The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
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How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured.
Nicholas Sparks
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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.
Debbie Reynolds
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Movements are as eloquent as words.
Isadora Duncan
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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.
Kevin Patterson
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Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.
Kate Tempest
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Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.
Katherine Ursula Towle
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I take sounds and change them into words.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.
George W. Crane