Words Quotes
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I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.
Barbara Lewis
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There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.
Amy King
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It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
Francis Bacon
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I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
Elmore Leonard
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I've got some words of wisdom.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Give fools the first and women the last word.
George Horace Lorimer
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If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
Octavio Paz
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I actually cut my sentences a lot. I'm very aware of the actor, giving them too many words - just a mouthful of words - it's difficult sometimes for an actor. So I'm kind of aware of breaking sometimes the line, the sentence with a comma where maybe there wouldn't be a comma there. Just to give a breathing space for the actor, just to be aware of that.
Nilo Cruz
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I don't know how you describe it or what words you put to it. It's almost unbelievable.
Curtis Martin
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
John Buchan
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer
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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.
Haruki Murakami
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He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.
Blackie Sherrod
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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.
Anthony McCarten
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By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words - or the words of others?
Martin Luther
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Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.
Abi Morgan
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Words are the weights which hold our history in place.
Beth Kephart
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Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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Words are the voice of the heart.
Confucius
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As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.
Wendy McElroy
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These words were small and they only meant what they said, not how they felt before he said them. He nearly wept with the frustration of it.
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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No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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His words stroll out like well-dressed senior citizens on an afternoon walk.
Adam Fletcher