Words Quotes
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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
Elvis Costello
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
Agnes Varda
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The words were low, more shape than breath.
Elizabeth Bear
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.
Steve Martin
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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.
Abraham Coles
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Wake the happy words.
Theodore Roethke
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Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
Catherine DeVrye
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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.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.
David Clement-Davies
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.
Immanuel Kant
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The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words.
Paul Engle
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The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
George Will
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Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
John McAfee
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Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it.
Liberace
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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.
Anya Kamenetz
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The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.
Anthony Robbins
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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.
John Irving
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
Michel Foucault
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Homer
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A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
Beryl Markham
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When words fail, the guitar speaks.
George Szell