#word

Your word is your bond. ↗

— Melvyn Douglas

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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. ↗

— Rita Dove

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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Words are but pictures of our thoughts. ↗

— John Dryden

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I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll. ↗

— Patty Duke

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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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The word must is not to be used to princes. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#mince #throat #words #you

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

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