Words Quotes
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When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring.
John Lancaster Spalding
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A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
Lev Vygotsky
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In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.
Rachel Cohn
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You can enjoy the quality of the ad and not let them pressure you to buy what you don't really need. I have had fun taking back superlatives and just ordinary good words and phrases from ads and trying to restore some of their life to them.
Corita Kent
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.
James Gleick
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Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
FKA twigs
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I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into my mind. I'll record three or four lines at a time, get a good take, and do three or four more. It may be whatever comes into my mind. But I care about my craft a lot more than a lot of other people.
Daystar Peterson
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The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
Fannie Hurst
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
Nalo Hopkinson
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I can't remember those words (Lyrics) even when we were on tour.
Phil Collins Genesis
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
William Faulkner
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Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.
Joe Gebbia
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
J. B. Priestley
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I am just thinking how unfair it is of you to quote their own words. It is a low blow to use what ExxonMobil has actually said against them. I mean, that is kind of a cheap shot, don't you think?
Joe Barton
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I talk by playing, not by words.
Bernie Worrell
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
Jennifer Donnelly
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When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The words of the day are, 'Get off the set as quickly as possible,' and so CG enables you to do that.
George A. Romero
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We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.
Valerie Solanas
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Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion.
Derek Hough
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YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY
Florence Scovel Shinn