- Life
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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simple words of encouragement subsequently saved many of the Indianapolis' sailors during their ordeal in the summer of 1945, and those men took the lesson to heart.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people understand that the more words children are exposed to, the stronger their vocabularies will be. But fewer people are aware that the quality of the words also significantly affects brain development.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both the quantity and quality of the words children hear during their first three years of life make an enormous difference in how prepared they are to start school, and ultimately, their long-term achievement.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020