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I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important. -- Chelsea Clinton
I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer. -- Idina Menzel
The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential. -- Ray Stevens
I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up. -- Tom Lehrer
Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right. -- Alex Chilton
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words. -- Arthur Hailey
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor. -- Fred Saberhagen
A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything. -- Rush Limbaugh
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't. -- James Salter
No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. -- Roddy Doyle
Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them. -- Rowan Williams
The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now. -- Clare Short
I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me. -- King Krule
It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric. -- Richard Rodgers
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space. -- Joanna Scott
Who has words at the right moment? -- Charlotte Bronte
Go away. I'm all right. [last words] -- H. G. Wells
Sow the right words! Think the good thought. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The words walked right out of my mouth. -- James Brady
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. -- Patti Smith
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Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words. -- Dan Poynter
Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right -- Tom Robbins
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right. -- Son House
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. -- Jack Kerouac
My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now! -- Vinny Guadagnino
There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for. -- Lisa Kleypas
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.' -- George Stephanopoulos
For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Getting rich begins with the right mindset, the right words and the right plan. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words? -- Elizabeth Bibesco
I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until. -- Sam Elliott
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. -- Raymond Carver
Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead. -- Davy Crockett
I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now. -- Veronica Roth
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. -- Markus Zusak
All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last. -- Doug Cooper
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care. -- Simon Sinek
That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones. -- Melissa de la Cruz
You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me. -- Meat Loaf
Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by. -- Jonathan Sadowski
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words. -- Steve Martin
Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us. -- John Birmingham
Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words. -- Sarah Dessen
In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after. -- Thomas Mars
I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally. -- Gerry Spence
Ahmed Johnson came from a neighborhood where the most common words heard was, You have the right to remain silent. -- Jerry Lawler
Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little. -- Tom Stoppard
I reserve the right to not to be addressed...at all; my thoughts should not be interrupted with your words. -- Mamur Mustapha
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. -- Don Roff
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. -- Phillips Brooks
Make it a practice to kick yourself for every time you answer your children with the words NOT RIGHT NOW. -- Wes Fesler
The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first! -- Behdad Sami
Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty. -- Max Lucado
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. -- Orson Scott Card
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right. -- Zhuangzi
Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way. -- Patrice Leconte
I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. -- Dave Barry
It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words. -- Peter Elbow
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. -- Shane Koyczan
Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. -- Monte Irvin
It's your words that gave me courage. It became my light that would guide me towards the right path again. -Jellal Fernandes -- Hiro Mashima
Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use. -- Jamey Johnson
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. -- John Lydon
If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on. -- Richard Masur
For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work. -- Kim Smith
Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night. -- Isaac Watts
Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president? -- Cindy Sheehan
Love shouldn't hurt. Love is to help the other grow with the right words instead of using derogatory remarks. Everyone has their good points -- Yoshiko Sakurai
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear. -- Neil Gaiman
Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I'm hurting right now but it's great to know good people have my back!! -- Roman Reigns
All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the right order. -- Emma Darcy
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.' -- Mitt Romney
Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words. -- Barbara Feldon
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words. -- Kate Tempest
All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right -- Bill Cosby
Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away. -- Abraham Lincoln
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back of my mind. -- Gary Snyder
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. -- Hart Crane
I look at him more than a little shocked by his words knowing how much he likes being right being in charge most people do. -- Alyson Noel
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.' -- Billie Jean King
I can still hear the words you whispered when you told me I can stay right here forever in your arms from Forever and for Always -- Shania Twain
Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words. -- John Diefenbaker
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. -- Dylan Thomas
You have the power to choose the words you write, so choose the right ones. And yes, this applies to the workplace too. Make a difference! -- Sudakshina Bhattacharjee
The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. -- Anthony Burgess
Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts. -- Toba Beta
When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right. -- Stevie Wonder
Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art preserve its life. -- Diana Rose Morcilla
Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony. -- Ann Beattie
More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words. -- Andrew Weil
I have to have an impact. That's what drives me to practice to make sure my words are clear and my stories are compelling. Right. Because it matters. -- Simon Sinek
One Mormon raised the question with his spouse, who minched no words in replying, 'All right Jody - you get another wife and I'll get another husband!' -- Leonard J. Arrington
People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words. -- Sanhita Baruah
I couldn't get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain. -- Stephenie Meyer
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe. -- Margaret Haddix
I was wrong.Now that I think about it, if I had said those words to a now-ex back in my twenties, I would probably be married right now. -- Larry Gent
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning. -- Eyvind Johnson
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name. -- Dennis Flanagan
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe -- Margaret Haddix
I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect. -- Sarah Dessen
For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime? -- Richard Ford
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. -- John Bertram Phillips
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.... -- Mark Twain
I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple. -- David Levithan
There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it. -- Christopher Hitchens

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