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Word Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
- Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no…
- Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most…
- A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
- He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always…
- My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is,…
- My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel —…
- Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever…
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- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach