Words Quotes
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It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end. In other words, if I wanted to make really good clothes to order, I would start out making good, and therefore expensive, clothes to order. If I started making inexpensive clothes, I thought probably I'd die making them.
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It was a place to bless God in and cease from vain words.
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If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
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In other words, volume trumps calories. We eat the volume we want, not the calories we want.
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There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.
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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.
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I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.
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If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.
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The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
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What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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.
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Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.
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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
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The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.
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Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.
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Jerome never liked me - preferred my sister who was a little fool excited by modern literature - all swear-words and scatology - before it became fashionable.
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Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.
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I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words.
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Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
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Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
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With our bodies we make statements before we speak, our presentation is a language spoken without words. You—and only you—get to decide what it is you’re trying to say.
