Words
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Where words fail, music speaks.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, "If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?" and he answered me with two words: "A pencil". Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.
Most of my recognition comes from us winning that championship. The words may not come out — 'Super Bowl III' — because a lot of the folks at the grocery store, gas station or mall weren't even born when we won the Super Bowl. But they're aware of it. It has had a tremendous impact on my life since then.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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