Words Quotes
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Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.
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Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.
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There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
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I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
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I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.
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A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
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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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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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What a wonderful faculty is memory! - the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds - this faithful witness against us for good or evil.
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Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.
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Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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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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Don't take many words to break a fragile heart!
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Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
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One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.
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Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
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What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
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'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
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When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.
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I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
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A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer.
