#words

I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#find #from time to time #good #grateful #how

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. ↗

— Carmen Laforet

#i write #narrative #short #thread #tight

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#compromise #magic #me #philosophical #tolerance

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#common #life #make #might #sum

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#brilliantly #difficult #discovered #easy #emotional

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#down #fall #feast #mind #our

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words. ↗

— Chris Martin

#i #like #rock #rock star #soft

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#actions speak #contemplation #evidence #forget #louder

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. ↗

— David Lehman

#dictate #electrons #enter #field #fixed

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#certain #every #format #get #guess