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In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'
Daniel Tammet
Me
Words
Mind
Thought
Young
Alive
More
Color
Come
Friends
Texture
Than
Child
Form
Young Child
Which
Them
Far
Page
Why
Ink
Numbers
One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.
Danny Gokey
Age
Words
Power
Young
One Of The Things
Parent
Learned
Very
Young Age
Children
Things
Sunderland was a turning point where I changed from a boy to a man. It was definitely the right thing for me to go on loan to another Premier League club. It helped me beyond words.
Danny Welbeck
Me
Man
Words
Loan
Club
Changed
Right Thing
Definitely
Point
League
Beyond
Another
Boy
Go
Where
The Right Thing
Turning
Turning Point
Premier
Premier League
Helped
Right
Thing
If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.
Darlene Love
You
People
Words
Will
Hook
Record
Lead
Songs
Lead Singer
Most
Sing
Singer
Makes
Sell
Listen
Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
Dave Barry
You
Words
Job
Be True
Wish
Think
Mine
Plus
Had
True
Like
Repeat
Up
Certain
Even
Number
I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.
Dave Eggers
News
Morning
Words
Value
Too
Back
Way
Online
Still
Get
Just
Newspaper
Worked
Started
I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.
Dave Matthews
Me
Song
Words
Past
Definitely
Critic
Inside
Recorded
Only
No Words
Like
Get
Which
Little
Little Thing
Thing
I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
Dave Matthews
Respect
Socialism
Words
Think
Bad
Necessarily
When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.
Dave Matthews
Time
Words
Simple
Too
Right Time
Way
Melodies
Favorite
Songwriters
Until
Occasionally
Manage
Going
Listen
Often
Just
Stop
Notes
Many
Chords
Keep
Right
Prohibiting any words not approved of as 'politically correct' - that's not progressive. Putting 'trigger warnings' on books, movies, music, anything that might offend people - that's not progressive, either.
Dave Rubin
Music
People
Words
Progressive
Books
Approved
Correct
Trigger
Putting
Offend
Any
Politically
Politically Correct
Anything
Either
Movies
Might
Warnings
I like people who are minimalist with their words. Jack Nicholson thinks a lot then says something, and it's always spot on. Nelson Mandela is the same.
David A. Stewart
People
Words
Says
Minimalist
Nelson
Nelson Mandela
Something
Like
Spot
Always
Lot
Jack
Jack Nicholson
Same
Mandela
Then
Who
Nicholson
Thinks
The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
David Almond
Me
Words
Important
Sounds
Rhythms
Really
Yeah, once the song is written, it just complexifies the profile of it to have the music and the words at odds. It comes naturally to me. A lot of my music is like that.
David Berman
Music
Me
Song
Words
Odds
Once
Written
Like
Yeah
Lot
Just
Naturally
Profile
Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't try to do what he couldn't. I couldn't rock out harder than everybody, or overpower people with mastery like Jack White of the White Stripes, so why try? That's why I've always worked harder on words.
David Berman
People
Words
Try
White
Everybody
Montana
Say
Stripes
Out
Joe
About
Threw
Throw
He
Like
Because
Mastery
Rock
Always
Jack
Than
Worked
Successful
Used
Hard
Why
Harder
Soft
There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.
David Carson
You
Words
Communicate
Ways
Colour
Sound
Texture
Many
Even
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'
David Crystal
Conversation
Words
Word
Language
Focus
Fall
Our
Books
Would
Structure
Tend
Unusual
Without
Provide
Items
Quirky
Which
Skeleton
Apart
Hello
Ignore
One of the lesser-known ways of making new words is to form a blend - and a blend is when you run two words together to make a third word.
David Crystal
You
Together
Words
Word
Ways
Run
Blend
New
Make
Making
Form
Two
Third
It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
David Denman
Me
Words
Kid
See
Shakespeare
Hear
Theater
Much
Meant
Professional
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.
David Frum
You
Words
President
Those
Would
Could
He
Feel
Ideas
Himself
Always
Commit
Committed
Persuade
Certain
Believed
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
David Guterson
Time
Me
Change
Together
Words
Hide
Made
Keyboard
Pretend
Study
Beyond
Am
Woke
Tapping
Up
Author
Role
Gradually
Just
Public
Public Figure
Realization
Figure
Who
Away
Play
I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in front of the world, had to dig into a pocket to pull out a crumpled sheet of paper containing the words that would move us all?
David L. Wolper
Wonderful
Words
World
Liberty
Nation
Every
Dig
Paper
Kid
Out
Statue
Statue Of Liberty
Would
Pocket
Winning
Write
Students
Had
Containing
Schoolteacher
Sheet
Got
Up
Microphone
Front
Move
Grammar
Meaning
Meaning Of
Us
Asked
Pull
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
David Lee Roth
Music
You
Words
World
Hero
Feeling
Music World
Brought
Brown
He
Without
Sound
His
Just
Famous
Want
James
James Brown
Really
Using
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
David Lehman
Words
Will
Single
Field
Enter
Spin
Magnetic
No-One
Proprietary
Like
How
Dictate
Fixed
Orbit
Owns
Them
Meaning
Used
Electron
Initial
Away
Right
Wider
I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
David Levithan
Love
You
Writing
Words
Own
Else
Would
Someone
Something
Fact
Never
Written
Bouncing
Off
Get
Story
Your
Ever
Guarantees
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
David Lodge
Words
Seen
Before
Other
Outside
Never
He
End
Dictionary
Walt
Walt Whitman
Laid
Whitman
Who
Company
Each
When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.
David Longstreth
You
Words
Obey
Sometimes
Random
Thinking
Lyrics
Melody
About
Write
Come
Vowel
Make
Sounds
Go
Just
Really
Hard
Actually
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