- 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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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of 'law,' but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'
- Beside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cells. In other words, the very genes that allow our embryos to grow or our brains to grow, our bodies to grow, if you mutate them, if you distort them, then you unleash cancer.
- Nov 07, 2020
There will be people who don't like you or aren't convinced. I'd rather let my work talk than justify in words.
- Fair Share
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.
- Depth
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- Nov 07, 2020