Words Quotes
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
William Weaks Morris
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People are coupling and decoupling all the time in Great Britain. The fact that Muslims choose to precede it with a certain formula of words, shouldn't bar them from anything. But, no one's saying that polygamy should be institutionalized in this country. That Muslim's uniquely should be allowed to have two or three or four marriages.
Sadakat Kadri
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
Stephen Hough
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I think it's Romney. I think he's stealing in 'like a thief with good tools,' in Walker Percy's old words. While everyone is looking at the polls and the storm, Romney's slipping into the presidency. He's quietly rising, and he's been rising for a while.
Peggy Noonan
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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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My father was a man of few words.
Ken Venturi
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I have the True Dharma Eye, the Marvelous Mind of Nirvana, the True Form of the Formless, and the Subtle Dharma Gate, independent of words and transmitted beyond doctrine. This I have entrusted to Mahakashyapa.
Gautama Buddha
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Enough words, little wisdom.
Sallust
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I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right.
Ian Paisley
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My words are my bullets.
John Joseph Lydon
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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.
Eric Rohmer
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Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)
William Shakespeare
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You don't need words to express feelings.
Robert De Niro
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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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
Anthony Doerr
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The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'
Aziz Ansari
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If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.
Epictetus
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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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I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
Clive Anderson
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People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'
George Stephanopoulos
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The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate.
Anne Nicol Gaylor
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Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.
Nachman of Breslov
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If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.
John Lancaster Spalding