- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.'
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
When words leave off, music begins.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donald Trump is not a 71-year-old white man. He is an Indian uncle. He wears suits that don't fit; he can't speak English properly. He works with his idiotic sons; he hates women but loves his daughter. He makes up words when he gets angry. He is an Indian uncle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020