Words Quotes
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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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When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.
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'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.
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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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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.
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Words are illusions.
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To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.
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I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in my phone. It might just be one or two words, and then that could inspire a whole song, lyrically.
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It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.
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I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch.
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I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily.
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Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.
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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
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I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever.
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
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In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
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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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In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
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Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.
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Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.
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His words stroll out like well-dressed senior citizens on an afternoon walk.
