Best Few Words Sayings
144 Few Words quotes by 132 unique authors
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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…
— Marisha Pessl
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I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract.…
— Ellen Goodman
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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It takes few words to tell the truth.
— Chief Joseph
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There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or…
— Stanley Clarke
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I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot…
— Jim Dale
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I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
— Frank Gorshin
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I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words…
— Peter Ackroyd
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With few words, one can speak the truth.
— Bryan Adams
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Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
— Jamey Johnson
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Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I…
— Gustave Courbet
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We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to…
— Julia Cameron
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
— Tim Ferriss
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I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio,…
— Susan Lucci
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Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of…
— Brigham Young
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The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it…
— Will Rogers
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My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands…
— Judy Garland
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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and…
— Francois Fenelon
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
— Anais Nin
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I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not…
— Mary Oliver
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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
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