Quotes about Words
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"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak."
-Nikki Giovanni
-Nikki Giovanni
"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."
-Hermann Hesse
-Hermann Hesse
"What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?"
-Richard J. Daley
-Richard J. Daley
"The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies."
-Pauline Kael
-Pauline Kael
"The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind."
-Hortense Calisher
-Hortense Calisher
"To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time."
-Dr. Smiley Blanton
-Dr. Smiley Blanton
"I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling."
-Lech Walesa
-Lech Walesa
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."
-Paul Simon
-Paul Simon
"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
-Sir Joshua Reynolds
-Sir Joshua Reynolds
"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality."
-Harold S. Geneen
-Harold S. Geneen
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
-Alexis De Tocqueville
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