#word

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#characters #communicate #great #movie #relationships

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#how #i #like #mention #myself

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. ↗

— Mo Udall

#gentle #give #lord #may #tender

I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#am #angry #become #care #i

So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful. ↗

— Debra Messing

#curious #encourage #fantastic #him #i

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#brutal #cutting #down #every #every time

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory. ↗

— David Miliband

#hebrew #history #i #i do #memory

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce. ↗

— John Milius

#hardly #i #said #until #wife

I want to invent a word that means “to stand tall, even when you feel small and frail.” That word, as I envision it, will be “Buqz” (pronounced Bucks). And then, with my newly created word, I can formulate a sentence that ties the record for the shortest sentence that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. That sentence is, “Flyph Wax, a starving midget jock, buqz. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#invent #sentence #word #funny

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. ↗

— Alice Miller

#better #child #empathy #even #grows