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Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling. Richard Dawkins
Words Say Worthwhile Able Something Relying Without Calmly His Yelling Anybody Sensible Convey Meaning Themselves Should Who
When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words. Alan Furst
Good Book Words Three Google Incredible Out Detail Good Words Period Read Always Material Am Get Really Whole Alert
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. Alan Rickman
Me You Change Words Language Drive Different Energies Anyway Mean Sentence Fascinates Whole
I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible. Alexa Vega
Conversation Words Try Somebody Lose Say Kind Horrible Crush Know Really Start
If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.' Alexei Sayle
You Travel Words Seriously President Say States Git Lift Instance Like Lot Than Different Curtains Deranged Use They Say Elevator
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Thoughts Words Men Conceal Same Declare
I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. Anne Lamott
Love People Writing Words Impeachment Word First Cute Progressive Hesitates Drawn Run Divine Divine Love Almost Know Piece Makes Any Screaming Little Sentence Use Many Lives
Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever. Antonin Scalia
Government Hate Words Whatever Unjust Could Written Idea Flag Oral Just Form Burning Mean Expresses Expression Symbol Speech
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. Antonio Porchia
Words Say Never Because Does Always Same They Say Last
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. Arnold Schoenberg
Music Emotions Words Cause Feelings Vice Versa Painting Way Outlet Something Could Never Had Know Also Renounce Versa Very Did Vice Whether Capable Expressing Why
An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary. Ashwin Sanghi
Work Book Words Lose Films Mediums On-Screen Books Saw Anna Like Readers Dealt Godfather Author Legendary Screen Different Whereas Them Sentence Might Should Painful Works Even Film Differently Two
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. Augustus Hare
Humble Words Our Ourselves Seem Hypocrites Talk Proud Sound Hearts Whenever While
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. Ben Shneiderman
Art Words Worth Picture Thousand Thousand Words Picture Is Worth Pictures Interface
Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords. Bernie Siegel
Change Words Parents Become Patient Physicians Hypnotic Sharing Clergy Always Am Hear Cure Child Authority Either Teachers Figure Lives Swords
Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling. Bill Evans
Me People Words Try Feeling Jazz Analyze Part Bugs Because Intellectual Children Explain Translate Really Theorem Reason Therefore Why
I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson. Billy Casper
You Change Words Important Big Move On Lesson Other Bad Something Only Learned Accept Very Hit Move In Other Words Happens Shot Next Early
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. Blaise Pascal
Words Arranged Effects Different Meaning Different Meaning Meanings Differently
Words are illusions. Bodhidharma
Words Illusions
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower. Bruce Feirstein
You Words Settle Never Accomplish
In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see. Charles Bukowski
Work Words Photograph See Only Writer
Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious. Charles Munch
Music Art Intelligence Words Define Above Rises Unconscious Inexpressible Domain Mean Land Far Expresses
If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words. Christian Camargo
You People Words Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Shakespeare Through He True Performed Affect Been His Years Text Very Going Reason Deep Why Humanist Level
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. Cole Porter
Good Writing Words Better Too Once Only Knew Prose Goes Authors Anything Use Who Now Four-Letter
I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination. Colm Toibin
Words Strong Looking Live Imagination Visual Like Things
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. Dan Quayle
Good Me Sports Words Better Nothing Defense Other Wins Beat Knight Offense In Other Words Cannot Bobby
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling. Dani Shapiro
Words Feeling Sit Down Out Find Scribbling Notebook Across Page Start
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