Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.
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That's what us northern people do don't we? Don't mince our words, just say it how it is.
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.
The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'
Dance is a universal language which allows you to express yourself without words and I think that is why everyone is so enamoured by dance.
The people inside the company, generally two to three levels down, they know best what's wrong and how to fix it. It's just that their voices aren't being heard. I listen for words, tonality, and language.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them...
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
Years of cooking have taught me that the harder a flour is, the 'thirstier' it is. In other words, harder flours tend to have a greater capacity to absorb water than their softer counterparts.
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