- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A missile attack is federal. A missile attack is not a local responsibility. Confirmation and notification of something like a missile attack should reside with the agency that knows first and knows for sure: in other words, the people who know should be the people who tell us.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Texas upbringing - and living now in Brooklyn, too - have surely helped my appreciation for open spaces and skies, but beyond that, it's not easy to find words for what it feels like to be up in the Rockies or out on the Great Basin - such silences and spaces! - or to be heading up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020