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Letter "W" » Words
«Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Words
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distorted, expressed, immediately, very well
«Words give you a medium, if you will, and make your message part of the human thought process. Words are as portable as the human being who hears them.»
Author: James J. Jordan, Jr.
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
hears, human process, Human thought, portable, thought process
«Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.»
«Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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Words
| Keywords:
experiences, string, stringing, thread, threading
«Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.»
«Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
centuries, drastically, meanings
«Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.»
«Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Words,
Writing
| Keywords:
appearance, Considering, look at, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, sound, weight, weighted, written word
«Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Words
| Keywords:
Actions, meaning, show, wit, word meaning
«Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.»
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