Words Quotes
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Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
James Newman -
What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
Ursula Dubosarsky
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
Ada Yonath -
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
Marisha Pessl -
Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
S. M. Stirling -
I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.
Chelsea Clinton -
Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao Tzu -
Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.
Kim Jong-un
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.
Yoko Ono -
I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.
Confucius -
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
Haile Gebrselassie -
When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden -
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
Ella Maillart -
'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.
Christian Louboutin
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I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
Zooey Deschanel -
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone -
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel -
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
Charlotte Rampling -
There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.
Alice Oswald -
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
Hal Sparks
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Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
Alfred Korzybski -
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.
Pablo Neruda -
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
Nas -
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis