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Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words

Dr. Joyce

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

Arthur C. Coxe

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Elbert Hubbard

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.

Pam Brown

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

George Eliot

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Roland Barthes

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

Senator John Kerry

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Leo Burnett

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

David Ogilvy

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give cost to old ones

Horace

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart

Peggy Noonan

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Bible

The weaker the argument, the stronger the words.

Unknown

A picture is worth a thousand words; a slide show is both.

Unknown

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds

Thomas Sowell

It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL

Herbert H. Paper

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words

Ernie Harwell

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization

Paul Ricoeur

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