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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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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.
- Pizza
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.
- Naked
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's the magic of any part - unravelling the mystery of what kind of person your guy is based on the words he says and the actions that he does.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.
- Phone Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020