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Letter "W" » Words
«By words the mind is winged.»
«Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.»
«But words once spoke can never be recalled»
«A word uttered cannot be taken back»
«A word to the wise is infuriating.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
infuriate, infuriates, infuriating
«A word to the wise is enough»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Wisdom,
Words
«A word too much always defeats its purpose»
«By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
alphabet, container, containers, formation, phonemic
«A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
crystal, crystals, greatly, in color, In Living Color, skin color, the Crystal, The Skin, transparent, unchanged, vary
«But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Mistakes,
Nature,
Words,
Work
| Keywords:
decipher, deciphered, deciphering, echo, gap, shorthand, struck
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