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Quotations regarding 'Words'

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Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.
Lynn Abbey, American Author (1948-  )
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
Lynn Abbey, American Author (1948-  )
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.
Ralph Abernathy, American Activist (1926-1990)
In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.
John Abizaid, American Soldier (1951-  )
With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?
F. Murray Abraham, American Actor (1939-  )
Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
Jack Abramoff, American Criminal (1958-  )
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
Goodman Ace, American Writer (1899-1982)
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.
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer (1930-  )
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams, American Historian (1838-1918)
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams, Historian (1838-1918)
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams, American First Lady (1744-1818)
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams, American Photographer (1902-1984)
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams, American Photographer (1902-1984)
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams, American President (1735-1826)
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."
Joseph Addison, English Writer (1672-1719)
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
George Ade, American Playwright (1866-1944)
The play is not in the words, it's in you!
Stella Adler, American Actress (1901-1992)
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher (1903-1969)
Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus, Greek Poet
The words of truth are simple.
Aeschylus, Greek Poet
 
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