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I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
Temple Grandin
Frustration
Words
Remember
Say
Out
Would
Able
Could
Knew
Talk
Get
Just
Scream
Being
Wanted
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
Adversity
Great
Man
Words
Matter
Endeavor
Field
Every
Benefit
Lies
Seed
Great Man
Magic
Known
Greater
Equivalent
Successful
Successful Man
Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'
Bill Burr
Me
You
Technology
Words
Amazing
Word
Looking
Looking Back
Mark
Spell
Back
Bad
No Clue
Pretty
Absolutely
Check
Buddy
Like
Because
Got
Dollars
Question
Question Mark
End
Up
Trying
Did
Getting
Just
Just Looking
Which
Clue
Your
Ever
Million
Million Dollars
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak
Art
Saying
People
Words
Extraordinary
About
Something
Discovering
Ordinary
Literature
Ordinary People
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
Words
Pride
Think
Vain
Others
Relates
Our
Though
Ourselves
Would
Vanity
More
Without
Opinion
Proud
Person
May
Often
Being
Different
Us
Used
Different Things
Things
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You
Man
Words
Mind
Wish
Know
His
Listen
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
Words
Few
Too
Correspond
Them
Many
Actions
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams
Silence
Words
Focus
Become
Photographs
Shall
Unclear
Content
Inadequate
Images
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
Charlie Chaplin
You
Words
Say
Cheap
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Elephant
Thing
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
Good
Words
Will
Difficult
Find
He
Make
Without
His
Modesty
Speaks
Who
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel
Truth
Memories
Truth Is
People
Words
Think
Follow
Shadows
Objects
Ideas
Most
Also
Surround
Precede
Impulses
Deeds
Beings
Desires
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Saying
Great
Words
Great Deal
Few
Nothing
Minds
Great Minds
Faculty
Talent
Talking
Deal
Much
Lesser
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.
John Muir
Love
God
Soul
Words
Men
Waters
Rocks
Etc
Expressions
Fountain
Flow
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
Lois Lowry
Reality
Words
World
Dangerous
Censorship
Enter
Distorted
Has-Been
Bad
Seductive
Giver
Taken
Most
Also
Been
Where
Choice
Deeds
Away
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
Truth
Great
Silence
Words
Water
Dark
Small
Clear
Great Truth
Vessel
Which
Sparkling
Sea
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire
Great
Thoughts
Words
Hide
Our
Use
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill
Life
Words
My Life
Must
Eat
Had
Course
Always
Confess
Often
Diet
Wholesome
Found
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Jealous
Thoughts
Fool
Words
Care
Every
Guard
Hour
Read
Dealer
Plainly
Your
Speech
I am a simple man who comes from a village, and villagers like us speak our mind. Now, in the process, if unknowingly my words came across as disrespectful or insulting, then I am deeply sorry. I don't want to hurt anyone.
Arijit Singh
Man
Hurt
Words
Speak
Simple
Mind
Sorry
Our
Like
Insulting
Am
Came
Want
Anyone
Process
Then
Us
Across
Who
Village
Now
Deeply
Disrespectful
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
You
Words
Word
Big
Too
Otherwise
Say
About
Something
Talk
Subject
Left
Very
Infinite
Infinitely
Want
Mean
Really
Use
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
Akhenaton
Life
Heart
Words
Virtues
Guide
Give
Lean
Unto
She
Mistress
Hear
Prudence
Maxims
Human
Store
Heed
Them
Human Life
Her
Thine
Universal
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
Today
Truth
Good
Me
You
People
Words
Old
Heroes
Everybody
Slick
Good Old Days
Touch
Give
Give Me
New
Days
Excuse
Bravo
Cannot
Old Days
Them
Villains
Now
Credulity
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
Bob Marley
Me
People
Words
Word
Leader
Could
Through
Songs
Message
Attracts
Messenger
Am
Passed
Person
Listen
Jah
Anybody
Want
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
Words
Feelings
Think
Ought
Distilled
Results
Which
Themselves
Actions
Waste
Bring
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Beautiful
Me
Words
Most Beautiful
Language
Summer
Those
Most
Beautiful Words
Always
Been
Afternoon
English
English Language
Two
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
Words
Big
Sense
Philosophy
Common
Common Sense
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