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Word Quotes
"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."
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"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us."
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"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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"That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person."
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"I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones."
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"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
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"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening."
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"I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals."
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"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
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"Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!"
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"In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter."
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"If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched."
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"The way I write, words can means lots of different things."
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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
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"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
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"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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"I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed."
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"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
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"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
"If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway."
"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"
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"I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across."
"Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages."
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