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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.
Doug Stanton
Heart
Words
Simple
Men
Encouragement
Lesson
Saved
Took
Summer
Those
Simple Words
Sailors
Subsequently
Ordeal
Many
Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
Douglas Brunt
Day
You
Words
Worth
Three
Easier
Some
Through
Write
Stuff
New
Days
Hours
Wrote
Without
Go
Brain
Than
New Stuff
Any
May
Stop
Crap
Taxing
Much
Next
Creating
Should
Painful
A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.
Drew Barrymore
Words
Old
Free
Bicycle
Few
Down
Side
Exactly
Exactly What
Dress
Spirit
Free Spirit
Written
Bought
Red
Like
Felt
Years
Years Ago
Rode
Which
Across
Street
And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.
Duane Chapman
Life
Words
Black
King
Too
Other
Say
Take
Been
Trailer
In Other Words
Convict
Stand
Used
Trash
Whole
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
Duane Michals
Great
Photography
Writing
Words
Worth
Birds
Photograph
Thousand
Photographers
Thousand Words
Photographs
Cliche
Because
Got
Lot
Flak
Anyway
Originally
I'm not Cormac McCarthy, but I can get my point across in a thousand words.
Duff McKagan
Words
Thousand
Thousand Words
Point
Get
McCarthy
Across
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
Dylan Thomas
Love
Alone
Myself
Words
First
Before
Nursery
Poems
Could
Had
Knew
Come
Read
Were
Just
Rhymes
To Love
Them
Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
E. L. Doctorow
Music
Words
Somewhere
Along
Make
Sounds
Line
Brain
Rhythm
Rhythms
Sentences
If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
E. M. Forster
Words
Earth
House
Mansions
Many
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
Earl Sweatshirt
Me
Words
Say
Able
Obsessed
Most
Because
Least
Proverbs
Being
Amount
A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much, and it's overwhelming.
Earl Sweatshirt
You
Words
Too Much
Overwhelming
Too
About
Write
Know
Talking
Because
Lot
Times
Scrap
Much
I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do five-syllable words, I don't do four-syllable words. This is English. Rudimentary English.
Earl Sweatshirt
Man
Words
Complicated
Rudimentary
Write
Like
Because
Listen
Just
Speaking
English
Even
Grown
Grown Man
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
Earl Weaver
Me
Words
Frank
Possible
Stay
Ten
He
Know
Robinson
Said
His
Manager
While
Far
Far Away
Should
Away
Played
Players
My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.
Ed Helms
Me
Words
Desperate
Thought
Made
Stars
Our
Extreme
Daring
Pep
My Friend
Seem
More
Attempt
Football
Look
Rendition
Because
Pink
Friend
Than
Irreverent
While
Converse
Wore
Sang
Cappella
Cool
Rallies
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
Eddie Izzard
Religion
Words
Spelling
Philosophy
Both
Different
Which
Two
When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
Edgar Meyer
Music
Words
World
Better
Somewhere
Musical
Way
Kind
Totally
Had
Between
Along
Disconnect
Go
Just
Just Kind
Them
Younger
Much
Aspiration
Connection
I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
Edith Piaf
People
Words
Cry
Make
Understand
Want
Even
Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
Edith Widder
Experience
Words
Try
First
Down
Back
Saw
Way
Those
Out
Would
Some
Totally
Dive
Directly
Share
Fireworks
Since
Lights
Come
Were
Been
Task
Inadequate
Turned
Needed
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.
Eduardo Galeano
Me
Words
Speak
Will
Tell
How
Tap
Stories
Which
Them
Shoulder
Choose
Many
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
Eduardo Galeano
Writing
Words
Try
Difficult
Those
Run
Marvelous
Adventure
Very
Escape
Capture
Away
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
Edward Carpenter
Words
Communicate
Few
Earth
Though
Possible
Able
Shall
Over
Like
Read
Going
May
Placed
Should
Body
Grave
Conscious
Present
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.
Edward Hirsch
Work
Song
Words
Singing
Carry
Voice
Rely
Poetry
Singing Voice
Rhythm
Themselves
Then
Separates
By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
Edward Livingston
Alone
Thoughts
Words
Law
Mind
Crime
President
Constitute
Shall
Looks
Make
Empowered
His
Fix
Act
Acts
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
Edward M. Lerner
Science
Words
Other
More
Mainstream
Like
Understand
Metaphor
Least
Than
Irony
Literally
Literature
Usage
Used
Figure
Speech
It is only by trying new things that we can hope to create products that are original. Don't just say those words; act like you believe them.
Edwin Catmull
Hope
You
Words
New Things
Believe
Say
Those
Only
New
Like
Trying
Just
Them
Create
Act
Products
Original
Things
Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each word has its unique place in the peerage of words, and he would not use a word out of place any sooner than he would thrust an ape into a captain's saddle.
Edwin Markham
Man
Words
Word
Other
Out
Would
More
Had
Thrust
He
Sooner
Saddle
Perhaps
Him
Ready
Command
Condensed
Than
Any
Place
Ape
Use
Captain
Unique
Each
Expression
Ever
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