Quotes with words

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  • Baruch Spinoza Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Anaxagoras Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
    Anaxagoras
    Greek philosopher (500 - 428)
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  • A. Owen Penny Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
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  • Benjamin Whorf Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Adam Clarke Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Bradley Joseph Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.
    On composing Interview with Bradley Joseph, The Spiritual Signi
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Bono Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Lawrence Durrell Music is only love looking for words.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Burton Cummings My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Barry McGuire My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Tiger Woods My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
    Tiger Woods
    American professional golfer (1975 - )
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  • Philip Roth My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
    Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bill Viola My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Italo Calvino Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Bruce Feirstein Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Henry Brooks Adams No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Robin Williams No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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