#words

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. ↗

— Jon Corzine

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Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality. ↗

— Jon Corzine

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When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later. ↗

— Evan Dando

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Songs are life in 80 words or less. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#life #songs #words

I like good strong words that mean something… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #words #strong

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

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