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Did that hurt? On your lip?"
"Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though. — Tammara Webber

My old man is a man of few words. — Scott Eastwood

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time. — Daido Moriyama

A man of few words,
I just sit still on this hill,
I know death will persist,
I write when my mind is still,
I bleed daily to exist. — P.J. Bayliss

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words. — Dejan Stojanovic

After everything we've done for each other, a few harsh words hardly signify. — Courtney Milan

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer. — Robert Breault

On a few words of what is real in the world
I nourish myself. I defend myself against
Whatever remains. — Wallace Stevens

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action. — Jeremy Renner

Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Agonizingly aware of the money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for a few words in the right key — F Scott Fitzgerald

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. — Jean Rostand

One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible, speak a few reasonable words — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I know I can trust in my heart ... that she ... dare I, can I express heaven in a few words? That she loves me. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly. — Drew Goodman

A few times I try to form a question so it sounds casual and normal, but each time the words get caught somewhere in my throat and never make it out. — Jandy Nelson

He's a man who measures words as if he had only a few given to him by Fate; too generous a syllable from his lips, and he might fall over dead. — Jeff VanderMeer

People have founded vast schemes upon a very few words. — Florence Nightingale

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words. — Frank Muir

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go. — Olga Kurylenko

A man of many thoughts but few words. Lucky for us all that it's not the other way around. Vidocq — Richard Kadrey

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

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. — Mae West

Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done. — John Grisham

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it. — Tim Ferriss

St. Vincent was far too clever to rely on physical violence when a few well-chosen words would skewer someone with a minimum of fuss. — Lisa Kleypas

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image. — Moses Ibn Ezra

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with. — Paul Fleischman

Fine. A man - faerie - of few words. I had killed his friend, was an unwanted guest. I wouldn't want to talk to me, either. — Sarah J. Maas

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies. — Patricia Moyes

There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity. — Diana Palmer

Counselor sessions, they asked the few of us who actually liked Michael to say a few words. I think they were afraid that some — Stephen Chbosky

The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. — Amado V. Hernandez

When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place. — George Ezra

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You never know when a moment and a
few sincere words can have an impact on a life. — Zig Ziglar

Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, "That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield. — Sharon Creech

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend. — Simon Cowell

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I? — Brandon Sanderson

Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher — Rob Thurman

Yes. Theo, being a man of few words, just told me it was cool. — Nora Roberts

The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words. — Fulton J. Sheen

A prince, in the turn of a moment and a few words, was now a king. — Mary E. Pearson

He seems to be a bird of few words. — Kendare Blake

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. — Abigail Adams

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. — Sam Walton

A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. — Sol Stein

A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word. — Mahatma Gandhi

Just don't leave anything unsaid to the people who matter. It only takes a few words to change your world. — James Hannah

It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart. — Mitch Albom

Sometimes just being able to write only a few hundred words as opposed to a few thousand is just fine. As long as they're good words. — Nicholas Trandahl

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence — Albert Camus

Meg McCaffrey, a girl of few words and much belching. — Rick Riordan

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! — J.K. Rowling

For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods. — Winston Graham

Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss. — Seanan McGuire

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version. — Charles Hazlewood

I'm a man of few words."
"If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. — Bill Watterson

Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words. — Jon Voight

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva. — Sylvia Day

Was something very new and strange in his life that these few words of trust from a woman should be so much to him. — George Eliot

Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy. — Robin Hobb

He shouted something in Jason's ear, but Jason could only make out a few words: THING ... DOWN ... STOP IT! — Rick Riordan

He's a man of few words, and he doesn't know what either of them means, people said, but not when he was within hearing. — Terry Pratchett

Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao." I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words. — Sophie Kinsella

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. — Samuel Johnson

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use. — Jamey Johnson

There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words. — J.K. Rowling

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. — Christopher Paolini

How did men manage to offer a compliment that transitioned from sweet to utterly salacious in the span of a few words? — Chloe Neill

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. — George Eliot

Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life. — Craig Groeschel

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth. — Shannon Hale

Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was. — Charles M. Schulz

I'm a man of few words, most of them end in off! — Kensington Gore

A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking. — John Updike

Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written. — Jimi Hendrix

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence. — Tom Perrotta

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer. — Bill Peterson

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. — Judy Garland

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question. — Ernst Haas

Sometimes, all it takes is a few words to change your life. — Scott Snyder

You are beautiful. Definitely worth a few milksop words of dribble. (Stryder) — Kinley MacGregor

If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases,
there's something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi

Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead. — Sophy Burnham

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

Overdrive for a girl I barely know, all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway. — Jennifer Niven

I am a man of few words, but many riddles. — Frank Gorshin

I thought I'd learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time. — Kiersten White

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. — Norman Mailer

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. — Carl Sandburg

My father was a man of few words. — Ken Venturi

He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open. — Sylvia Day

Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring
— Virginia Woolf

For a man of action and few words, the ones he did say were quite lovely. — Melanie Dickerson

We have given sorrow many words, but a passion for life few. — Kay Redfield Jamison