Words Quotes
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One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them.
Edward Conze
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My last words? 'Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.'
Kurt Vonnegut
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Words are illusions.
Bodhidharma
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And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Lydia Leonard
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I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Poets play with words to keep themselves sane.
Eyedea
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There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.
Jo Bonner
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I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
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After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Some of my reactions are very Nigerian. I still believe that words are things.
Ben Okri
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I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.
Jim Crace
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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
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There was good reason for the silence of the Holy Spirit as to how, when, in what form Christ ordained the apostles, the reason being to show the indifferency of all forms of words.
John Wycliffe
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The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.
Joseph Jacobs
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Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives.
Bernie Siegel
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Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.
Allison Mackie
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I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for it, some person or group of people out there has demanded that these words come into being. I think that you do the work for these people. You hope that you can make a living at it. Whatever your ambitions and needs are in that regard, your only real requirement is to try and dig as deeply as you can dig to make sense of the meaning of human existence.
Tony Kushner
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She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.
William Faulkner
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This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.
Daniel Wallace
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I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
Cass McCombs
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I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
Colm Toibin
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I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.
Brett Dennen