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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."
24
"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!"
18
"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."
Word,
16
"The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down."
Word,
12
"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
11
"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."
10
"I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones."
8
"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
Word,
8
"Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray."
8
"Carve every word before you let it fall."
8
"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."
8
"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
7
"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."
7
"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."
7
"I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on."
7
"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
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6
"A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing."
6
"In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter."
6
"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
5
"'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.'"
Word,
5
"Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically."
5
"All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing."
Word,
5
"And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."
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5
"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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