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Letter "W" » Words
«The paper burns, but the words fly away.»
«The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in»
Author: Dennis Potter
| About:
Words
«The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.»
«The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.»
Author: Larry Flynt
(Publisher)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Love,
Words
| Keywords:
count, die, Die Trying, English, entire, fingered, fingering, fingers, hand, misuse, misused, on one hand, start, tried and true, trying
«The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts»
«The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
initials, scholastic, Treaties, treaty
«The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.»
«The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Mystery,
Nature,
Words
| Keywords:
arbitrariness, charm, describing, enchantment, fairy, spell, terms
«The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.»
«The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
by rights, effective, ever, for the time being, his times, in no time, In These Times, may, Mays, no., no, Now is the Time, of all time, Out of Time, pause, paused, pausing, right, righted, righting, rightly, right a, timed, Time After Time, time out, Was, well timed, word, wording, word for word
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