Words Quotes
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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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Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
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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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There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
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Wake the happy words.
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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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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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It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
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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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The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
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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.
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...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
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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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The words were low, more shape than breath.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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When words fail, the guitar speaks.
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My feelings are too loud for words And too shy for the world.
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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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You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
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If everything you say gets laughed at...then you become afraid of everyone... and are no longer able to speak... even knowing all that does is bother everyone... Your heart.......shuts down... And your words die.
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An image is better than one thousand words.
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Poetry’s not made of words.
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Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it.
