Words Quotes
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But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
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...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.
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A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
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There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
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Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
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And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb—alive, alive, ALIVE.
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
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Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
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That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
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They are likely to have less educated parents who own fewer books and talk to them less from the time they are infants—a gap that’s been estimated at 30 million words by the time they start kindergarten.
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Wake the happy words.
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Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it.
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The words were low, more shape than breath.
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I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
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When words fail, the guitar speaks.
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The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your words.
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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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[The Cretans have] more wit than words.
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Poetry’s not made of words.
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I don't have your way with words "Sin said. "So I'm just going to go with a quick response. Ha
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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My feelings are too loud for words And too shy for the world.
