- Language
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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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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
- Nov 07, 2020
Deed, not words shall speak me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the modern presidency, the Chief Executive is expected to respond to anxious national moments with words that stabilize the country. President Trump chose a different route. He did not give a stirring speech of unity or create a national gathering point around common ideals. He spent his passion on other things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020