- Great Enemy
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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 even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a bit woe-is-me. I'd like to think that I'm not one of those. I'm quite a happy person.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.
- Nov 07, 2020