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#word

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #word




So the lover must struggle for words. ↗


— T. S. Eliot


#must #struggle #words

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them. ↗


— Jerry Lewis


#i #i can #nice #remembered #them

There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior ants, if I could put it like that. And everybody's psyche is preprogrammed at a basic level by the associative semantic fields that their first name and surname activate. ↗


— Victor Pelevin


#words #life

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement. ↗


— William Glasser


#asked #define #education #general #good

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use. ↗


— Dwight D. Eisenhower


#i #myself #use #word #worry

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗


— Tom Glazer


#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. ↗


— Ben Elton


#i wish #never #ok #perhaps #silly

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece. ↗


— Tom Glazer


#asked #been #before #both #brotherhood

I take sounds and change them into words. ↗


— Brian Eno


#i #into #sounds #take #them

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings. ↗


— Anne Stevenson


#am #any #art #ask #aware






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