#words

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. ↗

— Eric Idle

#break #corner #cry #go #hours

It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#because #caused #dyslexic #hard #kid

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#creative #disagree #i #i think #in other words

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ↗

— James Joyce

#her #mind #polished #quagmire #sinking

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#almost #archaic #because #harmless #incendiary

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#i #moment #retire #say #should

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#education #emotional #hope #in other words #including

I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#becomes #citizens #common #country #dead

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#i #now #she #tombstone #tried

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#cannot #deals #does #fiction #medium