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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.
I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.
That is the one single word that the food industry hates: 'addiction.' They much prefer words like 'crave-ability' and 'allure.'
No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
A few good words don't just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the next big step forward.
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
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.
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
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.
My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean 'spring' and 'tiger.' So, it's very unique!
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.
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.
Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
The average billboard has no more than eight words. It takes a lot of effort to make a beer, rice, or shampoo seem special in eight words.
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.