Words Quotes
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
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The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word - the note - is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.
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The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.
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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.
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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
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I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too minute. Sometimes, at the end of the day, there's just not enough colors involved - visually, there are just words on a page.
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What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
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Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
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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?
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We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
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Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.
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Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
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Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
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I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)
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Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.
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Words are the mind's wings, are they not?
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
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When I knew what I had to do I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts and ate them page by page so I could take my words with me.
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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.
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Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.
