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Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so important. — Ian Axel

She took a breath before she said the words she'd been waiting almost nine years to say. 'So what was wrong with me? — Priscilla Glenn

The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic. — Jay Samit

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words. — Denis Lavant

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. — Ray Bradbury

In the beginning was the word. Before all else, the word. So we speak as if words matter, because they do. — Dean Koontz

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon. — Mandy Patinkin

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before. — Neil Gaiman

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words. — Zach Condon

Always think twice before asking anything of anyone that ends in the words, on your face. — Dana Gould

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence. — Brian Harris

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert

The disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God. — Jeremiah Burroughs

Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words. — R.K. Narayan

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

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak. — William Shakespeare

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.
And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep. — Helene Cixous

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you? — Marty Rubin

Let us cross the river to the other side and rest beneath the shade of the trees.
[Stonwall Jackson just before passing into eternity in 1863.] — Thomas Jackson

Change your energy! Be genuinely positive. Have kind energy before you say kind words or do kind gestures. Affect other people positively. — Ilchi Lee

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too. — Elle Varner

Ace would be the first to turn the words into a joke, one about how artists fell in love every day before noon and got their hearts broken by dinner. — Kit Rocha

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet. — Bill Bryson

She says she can read my eyes before I speak the words. — Mita Jain

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real. — Frederick Buechner

Hey, Blue Bird." His voice was lower, his words raspier than before. "Sorry it took me so long to make it back. — Nicole Williams

It was a prayer that he had never said before, because it was a prayer without words or pleas. — Paulo Coelho

Words once uttered, cannot be buttered, so season them all before you speak — Carrie King

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find. — Natasha Bedingfield

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese! — Duke Of Wellington

Some look at life, for their entire life, before they actually see. — Nikki Rowe

I am yours," she whispered. The words cut like knives, barely out of her mouth before he stole them, sealing them with his own lips. — Kiersten White

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words. — Roger Kahn

Before speaking, notice what motivates your words. — Lama Surya Das

Last words of his mother to his father: Keep eternity before the children. — Dallas Willard

Love needs no words.
You had me before you even spoke — Vi Keeland

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over. — Sarah Dessen

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer. — Henry Miller

He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing. — Steven Erikson

I love you, Nick," Kelly whispered. "No matter what those words meant before, we know what they mean now. They're ours now. Just ours. — Abigail Roux

Before I fell
in love with words,
with setting skies
and singing birds
it was you I fell
in love with first. — Lang Leav

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

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words. — Charlie Haden

I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen. — M.J. Abraham

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out. — Auliq Ice

It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts ... yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before. — Stefanie Schneider

In other words, the idea for the iPad actually came before, and helped to shape, the birth of the iPhone. — Walter Isaacson

Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive ... — Simone De Beauvoir

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see. — Joseph Conrad

Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off. — Gregory Maguire

The words "I love you" become nothing but noise. But that's why we kiss. To say with our lips what we couldn't before. — Pleasefindthis

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well. — Caroline Gordon

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.' — Rick Perlstein

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. — Jacques Lacan

Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the body before the mind. — Rebecca Solnit

These three words were always the last thing an OASIS user saw before leaving the real world and entering the virtual one: READY PLAYER ONE — Ernest Cline

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before. — Theodore Bikel

Think before you speak, because words can really hurt, and you can't take back what you said, because the damage is already done. — M. Clarke

We've never done it that way before" is often cited as the seven last words of a dying church. — Sam Rainer

The noble minded act before speak, then they speak according to their actions. — Confucius

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath. — William Shakespeare

why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. — John McCain

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. — W. H. Auden

Before you speak words of hatred, so count with peace in your voice to ten. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The words when I said them felt no different than they had the night before, but their meaning was clearer. — B.R. Sanders

I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching. — Kevin Henkes

He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face. — J. Lynn

For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!" — Robert Graves

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page. — Tim Berners-Lee

Before I could even form a question, he murmured some words in Egyptian and we were sucked into a whirlwind. — Colleen Houck

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words? — Marty Rubin

Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words. — Friedrich Frobel

Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words. — Cassandra Clare

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive. — William P. Young

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it. — Jazz Feylynn

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began. — Brian Andreas

The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'. — Idries Shah

A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. — Patrick Rothfuss

I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails. — Sid Waddell

Stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE — Stephen King

Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act. — Leviak B. Kelly

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed. — Tony Benn

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Before they read words, children are reading pictures. — David Wiesner

This isn't anywhere I haven't been before. I've given up. In words muffled with exhaustion I whisper a prayer for my heart to stop. — Chuck Palahniuk

Create peace in your heart before you can express it in words. — Debasish Mridha

Swallowing your words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterward. — Kate Lloyd

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. — John Berger

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words. — Joni Mitchell

With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them. — Alaric Hutchinson

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words. — Esther Hicks

Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one's words before opening one's mouth. — Tad Williams

I say these words before the body of Redtail, so that his spirit may hear and approve my choice. Lionheart will be the new deputy of ThunderClan. — Erin Hunter

Things seemed clear in my head and even when I talked before the crowd, but the words never came out of the pen right. Besides, — Suzanne Collins