Words
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Good words cool more than cold water.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
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.
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet 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.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
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.
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