Words Quotes
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.'
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You can put anything into words, except your own life.
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If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.
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Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
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One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them.
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When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
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Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.
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A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.
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In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.
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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
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What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.
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To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.
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My principal commitment is playing the piano. But I always loved words.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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I used to listen to 'Woman's Hour' every morning, but I've discovered that I can't have words on when I'm working.
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My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!
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Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.
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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
