Words Quotes
12991 quotes by 5885 authors
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
— Ansel Adams
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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
— Honore de Balzac
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When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.
— Antonio Banderas
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
— Henry Adams
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Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can…
— Dave Barry
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
— John Adams
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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are…
— Drew Barrymore
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I…
— Drew Barrymore
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My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
— John Barrymore
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the…
— Roland Barthes
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There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
— Samuel Adams
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are…
— Scott Adams
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as…
— Glenn Beck
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're…
— Martha Beck
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Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that…
— William Bernbach
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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