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Words

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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Best Quotes about Words

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

11.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

16.

You can stroke people with words.

17.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.

L'Chiam

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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Twain, Mark

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For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Butler, Samuel

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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

29.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Havel, Vaclav

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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

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I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Chase, Stuart

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June

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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

48.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Yeats, William Butler