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My favorite poems have never been written in words. — Kij Johnson

Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure. — Ada Yonath

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

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars
glued together with magic and music and words. — Anita Krishan

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it. — Matthew Woodring Stover

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. — Paul Johnson

We must look deep into our soul daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Even idiots sometimes have a way with words. And some words have sharp tongues. — Cameron Dokey

I was born a premature birth.
My first words were "bleep, bleep" and "Curse, Curse"
My breath still stinks and I'm on my 3rd cert. — Eminem

Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes — Grabe

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. — Roger Zelazny

It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message. — Henry Drummond

We were very happy' - it was such a pleasure to voice these things, she wished there were more words. 'Very happy — Rachel Joyce

Unless you count the way the words sink into Neil, the way his life feels a little more solid than it did five minutes before. — David Levithan

Making some noise in the woods is a thing that one can forget. The sound of a man's voice on the other hand, is something else entirely. — Angelo Tsanatelis

I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. — E.L. Doctorow

The effect of overworking; we miss sacred moments. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A grateful heart is good medicine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein — Mark Rubinstein

Every man is defined by his deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The words that come out of your imagination are your own - just be sure they are. — Rusty Blackwood

Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful — Andre Breton

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ... — Vita Sackville-West

Words Have The Power To Change Us — Cassandra Clare

Tortured for the Republic. — James A. Garfield

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. — C.S. Lewis

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Fear must be conquered with faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown. — Anna Kamienska

What ceremony of words can patch the havoc? — Sylvia Plath

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs. — Albert Hammond Jr.

He wished they could just be naked in his bed and not worry about words. Talking was overrated anyway. — Savannah Stuart

Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky. — Colleen Hoover

Honey from the devil's fingers tastes bitter. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't see the point, in making the point that you will never say or do something by doing what you said you would never do ... ???? — Emma Paul

A living faith, a glorious hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Words have been the fine threads that have tied me to this world, forbidding me to disappear — B.N. Toler

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. — John Milton

bitchy when required, and entertainment director once I was able. I may never find the words of gratitude equal to all Sam did. — Genna Rulon

It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens. — Alberto Cairo

Maybe one day the words will pour out like so many others, easy and smooth and on their own. Right now they take pieces of me with them. — Victoria Schwab

Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead. — Gail Giles

Fears drive us backwards. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The trick to saying the word cock, is to do it like you have one in your mouth. — Geoffrey Knight

Words matter, words have import. — Douglas Kennedy

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans. — Guy Wetmore Carryl

Faith is a three dimensional action verb".

~R. Alan Woods [19998] — R. Alan Woods

Be happy with what you have. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. — Eric Bogosian

In other words, they believe it's wiser to focus more on increasing sales to a smaller percentage of your existing customers than to find new ones. — Seth Godin

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world. — Carrie Fisher

The amazing feeling that triggers the fountain of words that flow in my belly. — Euginia Herlihy

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail. — Gerald Celente

The light is shinning in every dark place. — Lailah Gifty Akita

people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself — Rupi Kaur

Wisdom begins in knowing the self. — Abhijit Naskar

Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts. — Benebell Wen

What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled. — Rachel Gibson

Love; something takes place in your heart without visible words. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

We buy into the saving work of Jesus big-time, but we dodge his words and his life as prototypical for the authentic Christian life. — Hugh Halter

I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ... — John Geddes

I'm not sure I've turned your Commander inside out, but I can assure you if that iron skillet was empty, I would bring him down a peg or two. — Julia Mills

Have you ever noticed some of the worst sicknesses in history have a lyrical sound to them? Words like malaria, diarrhea, cholera — Emma Chase

Many quote scripture, less study it, and even fewer live it. ~T.F. Hodge — T.F. Hodge

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world. — Charlie Brooker

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) — Jack Kerouac

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. — Michael Hogan

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. — Mahatma Gandhi

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe. — Zeno Of Citium

Words are the clothing of our thoughts. — Jonathan Swift

Just three words long — Rainbow Rowell

I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure. — Truth Devour

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out. — Shirley Jackson

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner . — Charles Stross

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms. — Angus Wilson

If we were poets, we'd starve on words. — Charlie LeDuff

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. — Chief Joseph

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. — Raymond Carver

Exacerbate, v.
I believe your exact words were: You're getting too emotional. — David Levithan

There is neither mistake nor failures. It is only experience. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? — Terry Pratchett

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix

That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it. — Francis Schaeffer

Have your dream ... What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) — Haruki Murakami

I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension. — Brian Froud

Sing, dance, laugh, love, or you'll be stuck with words. — Marty Rubin

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished. — Confucius

Words too soft for me to hear at this distance. But in the end, the words reach me. — Jay Asher

The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall. — Marina Abramovic

In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one. — Tom Watson

A king should die standing. — Louis XVIII Of France

Every word comes from the heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The right words always seemed to come too late. — Haruki Murakami

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. — J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.