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I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.


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C.S. LEWIS Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE ...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English langu...
DONALD MILLER In love there are two things -- bodies and words.
JOYCE CAROL OATES In love there are two things - bodies and words.
JOYCE CAROL OATES In love there are two things - bodies and words
JOYCE CAROL OATES Why do we need words when sometimes silence is the perfect answer? Why do we need words when they ar...
CLAIRE BURROUGHS PEREZ I really like words and I like to make them fun. Being an actor, teacher and a playwright, words are...
GAY HAMMOND Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = br...
DEYTH BANGER Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
SOTONYE ANGA I was a student of Stella Adler and then later Lee Strasberg, and they were into sensory work. At it...
MARK MARGOLIS Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
W. GLADDEN Words like 'retirement' just don't appeal to boomers. We are really careful in our language. They ar...
DREW SMITH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given and received, that is when the...
DAVID LEVITHAN Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age. They take root in us as we g...
TAHEREH MAFI Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
WILKIE COLLINS And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my ...
PABLO NERUDA Mr. Cullen, you look distant and aloof. But I know my words are entering you're disturbed mind.
EMILY STOECKER Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanh...
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
JOSEPH JOUBERT Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either pa...
DR. SEUSS Wisely selecting the words we use to describe the experiences in and of our lives can make us feel b...
MADDY MALHOTRA A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?
TAEKE DE JONG I choose to choose few words each day. Yes! few words that count. Few words that can make impact. Fe...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words ...
PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not s...
ANNA SEWELL We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not...
ANNA SEWELL We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON but I am also a lot more that words cant say. words cant convey my voice, or my touch, words only pa...
JOHNNY MORPHINE Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through ...
DAVID RAINS WALLACE I don't know, I can't quite get it."
"Don't try. It's just words."
"Just words?" AIDAN CHAMBERS His words are (that) he won't give us anything on Jerusalem, on the (West Bank) settlements, on our ...
SAEB EREKAT There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.
TILLIE OLSEN When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus ...
STRIDER MARCUS JONES Go away. I'm all right.
, LAST WORDS I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with ...
LAUREN DESTEFANO The words we choose to use when we communicate with each other, carry vibrations. The word ‘war’...
GRIGORIS DEOUDIS Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic...
JANE ROBERTS I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful tha...
ANDREW SOLOMON Our imperfections make us unique and also BEAUTIFUL. Some beautiful things are more impressive when ...
ANGIE KARAN Your Actions are harder than Your Words,So you need more actions and less words in order to excel in...
PAUL E. EHIMEN Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depen...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
J. R. SMITH I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.
JOE DUNTHORNE What does it feel like to be infected?"
"I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't...
LAUREN OLIVER The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragran...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to...
ERIC HOFFER Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer tha...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thou...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoug...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA These are the moments I fall deeper in love with him. When neither of us says anything, and we just ...
AMANDA GRACE There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like &#...
JIM LEACH Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
SIGMUND FREUD It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Principals have made alternate arrangements. Some are in media centers and some are doubled up in wh...
GENE MILLER The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Most of us are unaware of the words we use on a regular basis. We weren’t taught that the words we...
MADDY MALHOTRA More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes
CHER Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I gu...
LIBBA BRAY Words, are like the pixels on a computer screen. The more pixels there are, the more refined the ima...
JACK HUTTON HOFMANN I love the theme. I definitely feel we are not just our bodies, that we are beings and that we go on...
ANNE ARCHER We have had more than 1,000 hotel rooms added since 2000, ... Inventory is definitely going up, and ...
BOB SCHULTZ Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enoug...
TERRY PRATCHETT Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see ...
WILLIAM COLLINS We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing
LETITIA LANDON A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than...
JAY-Z I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Is it a little troubling? Yeah, just because his words do carry such enormous weight. I can't imagin...
CELIA WEXLER We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard th...
DEBORAH SMITH There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wo...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relate...
JANE AUSTEN They are nice and have families. Many would like to work. They sometimes don't look or smell great, ...
CONNIE WILSON We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator rea...
KAMAND KOJOURI They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE They are children of many men, our words
GIORGOS SEFERIS Look, everybody is always telling us how good the city schools are getting and how tough we're going...
BRIAN TATE The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weig...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different becaus...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The best stories proceed from a mysterious truth-seeking impulse that narrative has when revised ext...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And...
J.K. ROWLING Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.
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ADAM JONES Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
ADAM JONES My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
ADAM JONES That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid st...
ADAM JONES We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that i...
ADAM JONES With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
ADAM JONES I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and th...
ADAM JONES I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
ADAM JONES That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
ADAM JONES We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
ADAM JONES I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
ADAM JONES I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
ADAM JONES I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand...
ADAM JONES Fine art is really something I want to get into.
ADAM JONES I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
ADAM JONES Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, ...
ADAM JONES As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
ADAM JONES I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
ADAM JONES The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the ear...
DEAN JONES Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you...
QUINCY JONES I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.
LOLO JONES Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a s...
DUNCAN JONES My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It...
VINNIE JONES When it's the caliber of fight that Canelo Alvarez and Liam Smith is, that's a big deal, and...
JERRY JONES After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at sch...
SHIRLEY JONES I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
LESLIE JONES I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great par...
JERRY JONES I would doubt, if you call the governor, that he would supply to you his correspondence with his chi...
ALAN JONES I think most any legislator would probably be most happy to talk to anyone about their draft legisla...
ALAN JONES We have been trying to secure Ryan's services for quite a while now but, due to other commitments, h...
ALAN JONES KP would have loved that.
ALAN JONES He stood for something they loved. They admired the swagger about him.
ALAN JONES The innings were too short, but there were a lot of runs.
ALAN JONES