Words Quotes
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Looking close can make something beautiful. Not everything worth keeping has to be useful. If you don't have the words you need, borrow someone else's.
Cynthia Lord -
I'm greedy for a second serving of those words. I want a dessert of those words, a soup, a salad. I wanted to salt those words and snap them in like peanuts.
Alice Randall
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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
Peter Greenaway -
I don't know how you describe it or what words you put to it. It's almost unbelievable.
Curtis Martin -
Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.
Artur Schnabel -
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
Frederick William Faber -
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
John C. Maxwell -
The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not.
David Mitchell
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I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.
George Sanders -
[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.
Van Morrison -
Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.
Margo Jefferson -
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Jane Fonda -
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
Elmore Leonard -
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.
Jens Lekman
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But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
Megan Fox -
I watched her and her Aunt Lina stare at each other for what seemed a long time. Something was being said. Something important. Something that had to be said without words.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
Homer -
I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well...
Edgar Allan Poe -
It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.
Amy Heckerling -
When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
John C. Maxwell
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
Stephen Hough -
Afterwards, when Clavain tried to imaging how he might describe it, he found that words were never going to be adequate for the task. And that was no surprise: evolution had shaped language to convey many concepts, but going from a single to a networked topology of self was not amongst them.
Alastair Reynolds -
You don't need words to express feelings.
Robert De Niro -
I think 'taste' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike