- 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
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.
- Soul
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- Nov 07, 2020
Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?
- Nonsense
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.
- Bathing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020