#words

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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The words of the world want to make sentences. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#sentences #want #words #world

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#doing #earth #every #feel #format

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. ↗

— Buddha

#brings #hollow #one word #peace #than

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first. ↗

— Neil Diamond

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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#drank #dust #frame #grew #his

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. ↗

— William Drummond

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Who has words at the right moment? ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#right #right moment #who #words

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#came #down #find #god #had