Words Quotes
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Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
Margaret Heffernan -
The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.
Jay Samit
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Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.
Common -
Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.
Edouard Rene de Laboulaye -
I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.
Sarah Monette -
I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody.
Meek Mill -
I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.
Lorrie Fair -
Just listen to these people. You'd swear they understood each other though not one of them has any idea what their words actually mean to another.
Andre Alexis
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I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that's my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.
Amy Adams -
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
Peter Ackroyd -
I want to tell A Story, Every Story, everything all at once, not anything in particular that might be said through the words I know, and I try to roll all sounds into one, to accumulate more and more syllables, as if they might make a Möbius strip of language in which everything, everything is contained. There is a hidden rule even in this game, though - that the sounds have to resemble real syllables, that they can't disintegrate into brute noise, for then I wouldn't be talking at all. I want articulation - but articulation that says the whole world at once.
Eva Hoffman -
When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.
Daniel Woodrell -
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
Rumi -
The Nauru files lifts the secrecy surrounding Australia's hidden detention regime for asylum seekers through vivid reporting and the words of the guards and officials on the island themselves.
Katharine Viner
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I know the words to, like, every song. Hoobastank, whatever.
Lennon Parham -
All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.
Bassui Tokusho -
A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.
Rachel -
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.
Marjane Satrapi -
Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.
Elena Ferrante -
What's more, I don't believe any policeman uses words like "antonym". I don't believe you're a policeman at all.
Edmund Crispin
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As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.
Edmond Jabes -
Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
Kevin Keegan -
I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.
Andy Serkis -
I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
Clive Anderson