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WORDS: The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they�ve been in. (Dennis Potter, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994)
WORDS: Words are loaded pistols. (Unknown Source)
WORDS: Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. (Unknown Source)
WORDS: Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run. (Unknown Source)
WORDS: Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show -- full of potential, but temporarily inactive. (Unknown Source)
WORDS: All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Unknown Source)
WORDS: By words the mind is winged. (Unknown Source)
WORDS: Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. (Unknown Source)
WORDS: There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. (Unknown Source)
WORDS: Words are loaded pistols. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Fun: I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. (Katharine Hepburn, U.S. actress, 1907-2003Language: Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. (Bill Bryson, U.S. author, Born 1951Exceptionalism: The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. (Lorraine Hansberry, U.S. author and the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway, 1930-1965)
WORDS: Words are the small change of thought. (Jules Renard, French writer, 1864-1910Books: A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. (Salman Rushdie, writer, Born 1947Justice: Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? (Lillian Hellman, U.S. playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947-52, 1905-1984Happiness: The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
WORDS: All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet and artist, 1883-1931Silence - Protest: To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Ella Wheeler, U.S. Wilcox, poet, 1850-1919Cowardice: To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 1850-1919)
WORDS: There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words. (Earnest Calkins, a U.S. deaf advertising executive who pioneered the use of art in advertising, 1868-1964)
WORDS: Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show -- full of potential, but temporarily inactive. (Anthony Burgess, English author, 1917-1993)
WORDS: By words the mind is winged. (Aristophanes, Greek comic playwright of ancient Athens, 447-386 B.C.E.)
WORDS: Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
WORDS: The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. (Dennis Potter, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994)
WORDS: Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. (Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria’s reign, 1809-1892)
WORDS: All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)
WORDS: The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. (Dennis Potter, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994)
WORDS: Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
WORDS: There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. (John Updike, U.S. writer, and art and literary critic, 1932-2009)
WORDS: Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)
WORDS: Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. (Nathaniel Hawthorne, English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864)
WORDS: Words are but the signs of ideas. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
WORDS: Words are the small change of thought. (Jules Renard, French writer, 1864-1910)
WORDS: All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
WORDS: By words the mind is winged. (Aristophanes, Greek comic playwright of ancient Athens, 447-386 B.C.E.)
WORDS: There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)