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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words. -- Zell Miller
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. -- Ernest Gaines
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing. -- Trick Daddy
Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean. -- Herbert A. Simon
There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word. -- Brett Hull
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. -- Jerry Pournelle
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. -- Maya Angelou
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. -- Henry Adams
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. -- Henry Adams
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. -- Theodore Sturgeon
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. -- Alan Rickman
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. -- Theodore Dreiser
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. -- Don DeLillo
Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.' -- Joan Ganz Cooney
In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it. -- Michael Keaton
Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious. -- Charles Munch
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. -- J. K. Rowling
Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words. -- Ben Katchor
I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?' -- Peter Shaffer
I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth. -- Mark Batterson
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing. -- Ryan Reynolds
Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose writers, tend to be obsessed with. I think maybe I'm more of a curator than I am a writer in the strict sense because I am interested in how everything on the page, in a space, works together. -- Masha Tupitsyn
Words don't mean, people mean. -- Alfred Korzybski
Be respectful of words. They mean something. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Words without action mean nothing. I'll show you. -- Gena Showalter
Words can't express what you mean to me. -- Puff Daddy
Don't use big words. They mean so little. -- Oscar Wilde
Words never mean what we want them to mean. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I like good strong words that mean somethingâ?¦ -- Louisa May Alcott
There are tones of voices that mean more than words. -- Robert Frost
In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything. -- Mod Sun
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing -- Doris Lessing
Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean. -- George W. Bush
Words, how little they mean when they are too late. -- Taylor Swift
...Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]... -- Jonathan Safran Foer
it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating. -- David Levithan
Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what. -- Laura Antoniou
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean. -- George Eliot
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. -- Lucille Clifton
Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing -- Ahdaf Soueif
There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. -- Richard Flanagan
Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write. -- Paris Hilton
INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting. -- Adolph Malan
Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. -- Theodor Adorno
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain, -- Lisa Gerrard
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. -- Theodore Dreiser
Mind your language, count your words, mean what you say coz otherwise people no longer stay -- Ameya Agrawal
Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man. -- Donna Woolfolk Cross
The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom. -- Jill Telford
LOVE ~ TRUTH ~ FREEDOMare three words that mean the smae, and none may exist without the other present. -- Ale3ia
The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different. -- Earl Sweatshirt
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No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him. -- Rex Stout
I think actions speak louder than words. You can do all the hyping you want. It doesn't mean anything. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them. -- Michael Josephson
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. -- Augusto Roa Bastos
Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating. -- Umberto Eco
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained. -- Pythagoras
When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green. -- Adam Ant
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. -- Agatha Christie
Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last. -- Dan Millman
You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different. -- PJ Harvey
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. -- Thomas Sowell
Learn your lines"¦ plant your feet"¦ look the other actor in the eye"¦ say the words"¦ mean them. -- James Cagney
It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter. -- Kate DiCamillo
Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink. -- David Joseph Cribbin
I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian." -- Barbara Brown Taylor
I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent. -- Samuel Beckett
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do. -- Neil Gaiman
It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean. -- Virginia Petrucci
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything. -- Markus Zusak
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. -- Barbara Kruger
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers? -- Victor Hugo
They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter. -- Dana Reinhardt
Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful. -- Paul Nitze
It's so hard to say what you really mean. For any number of reasons: to protect yourself, or if you just can't find the words. -- Paul Beatty
I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean. -- Ernst Toller
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself. -- Joseph Wambaugh
Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer. -- Frederick Lenz
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. -- Jodi Picoult
I didn't mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page. -- Lisa Kleypas
Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer. -- Frederick Lenz
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Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You cannot say, 'No, Lord,' and mean both words; one annuls the other. If you say no to Him, then He is not your Lord. -- D. James Kennedy
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie) -- Jean-Luc Godard
Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying. -- Chris Stapleton
The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. -- Robyn
We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense. -- Norton Juster
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant. -- Lewis Carroll
I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life. -- Chuck D
I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough -- Mos Def
When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life. -- Louise Hay
It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling. -- Lauren Oliver
People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down. -- Jeff Koons
Words are real. Even if you can't see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don't mean. -- Anne Frasier
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite. -- Craig Brown
We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding. -- Eleanor Robson Belmont
Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber

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