Words Words Quotes
52 quotes by 48 authors
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Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice…
— James J. Kilpatrick
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But words - words are not enough!
— Klaus Kinski
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It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big…
— Richard Kadrey
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When you work with words, words are your work.
— Don Knotts
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Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as…
— Francis Chan
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Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.
— Lesley Howarth
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Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
— Sharon M. Draper
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I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
— Rickie Lee Jones
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Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of…
— Zhuangzi
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This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
— Livy
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So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big…
— John Marsden
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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the…
— Francis Bacon
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As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.
— Julia Cameron
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At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks…
— Bo Burnham
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What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words...
— Thomas Carlyle
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Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you…
— Gary Shteyngart
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Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.
— Bruce Feiler
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I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find…
— David Salle
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly…
— Aldous Huxley
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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Words Words Quotes
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