Words Quotes
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Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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A friend came to see me on one of the evenings of the last week — he thinks it was on Monday, August 3rd. We were standing at a window of my room in the Foreign Office. It was getting dusk, and the lamps were being lit in the space below... My friend recalls that I remarked on this with the words, "The lamps are going out all over Europe: we shall not see them lit again in our life-time."
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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True words seem false.
Lao Tzu
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Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.
Karen Marie Moning
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'Fine dining.' I'd love to know who coined the term and whether they meant it to be as offputting as it is. The words evoke an idea of phoney refinement, of needless flummery, snooty waiters, and an atmosphere designed to intimidate the customer.
John Lanchester
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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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In other words, when the community of faith gathers, its purpose is to equip its members for a life of love and good deeds when the community scatters.
Brian D. McLaren
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Where otherwise words were, flow discoveries, freed all surprised out of the fruit’s flesh.
Gayle Brandeis
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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Walt Whitman
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Movements are as eloquent as words.
Isadora Duncan
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Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.
Lee Radziwill
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In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.
Haruki Murakami
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Music takes us where words cannot.
Henry Winkler
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Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.
DeLisha Milton-Jones
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I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that's my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.
Amy Adams
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To be of few words is natural.
Lao Tzu
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I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.
Bridgit Mendler
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Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.
Etel Adnan -
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.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Our words reveal our heart, our actions reveal our Soul.
Anthony Douglas Williams
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I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.
Dan Mathews
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What's more, I don't believe any policeman uses words like "antonym". I don't believe you're a policeman at all.
Edmund Crispin
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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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Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
Charles Dickens