Whenever people speak, you give the opposition the opportunity to use those words as they see fit. — Gareth Southgate Copy Share Image
Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Words are lies. It's what's beneath the words that has any hope of being true.” — Matthew Sturges Copy Share Image
I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I always say a couple of words to the German players in the changing room and they're always laughing at me! — Emile Smith Rowe Copy Share Image
I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
I always had a background belief in God. In other words, instinctually I've never doubted that we are not alone. — David Berman Copy Share Image
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
“I’ve always believed that everything had a word to describe it, that anything could be written about, that there was nothing that… — R.K. Ryals Copy Share Image
“[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Our words are similar to wells, and those wells can accommodate the most diverse waters: cataracts, drizzles of other times, oceans that… — César Calvo Copy Share Image
In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
Too few presidents have steeped themselves not just in Lincoln's words but his deeds, which is why Obama's acquaintance with the great… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Some people just have a love for words and thinking about words that rhyme. — Olafur Darri Olafsson Copy Share Image
“It is a world of words to the end of it, / In which nothing solid is its solid self.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm very direct, I don't believe in wasting time, in wasting words. — Deborah Meaden Copy Share Image
The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up. — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
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