Words Quotes
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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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You don't need words to express feelings.
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There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.
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You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.
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I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.
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I believe in using words, not fists.
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Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I didn't react to him in a negative way. You kind of have to joke back with them to put them in their place.
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When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
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It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
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The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'
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Words and ideas can change or influence the mind just like music can - yes, like a spell. Regarding the effect of my "spells" I think it varies; my music communicates with some, and I think it has had a positive influence on the minds of those who like it. I hope it helped them see the world from a different perspective.
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
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Actions speak louder than words.
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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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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.
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Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.
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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.
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There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.
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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.
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But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.
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Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.
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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.
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All words are prejudices.
