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• I've never been called a man of few words.

  Joe Biden

  Men

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• When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Long, Wanted

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Just a Few Words," (p. 62), 1999.

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• Sometimes people come and they have so much pain and confusion in their eyes... what to do? A few words is a little bit of balm but doesn't really solve the deep disease within.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Pain, Eye, People

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• If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

  Daido Moriyama

  Light, Fossils, Photograph

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• Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Issues, Inquiry, Sincerity

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• There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

  Stanley Clarke

  Art, People, Pioneers

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• I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Ambition, Self, Interesting

  "London calling" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2004.

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• Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

  Jamey Johnson

  Men, Use

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• If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

  Marisha Pessl

  Cocktails, Napkins, My Family

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• I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani. . .

  Susan Lucci

  Family, Italian, Pavarotti

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• He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words.

  David Beckham

  Men, Eric, Quiet

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• ... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

  Florence Nightingale

  People, Schemes

  Florence Nightingale (1991). “Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essence, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Ghost, Speak

  Brigham Young (1860). “Journal of Discourses”

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• To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, People, History

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.108, e-artnow

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• My old man is a man of few words.

  Scott Eastwood

  Men, Old Man

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

  Jim Dale

  Writing, Kids, Phones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Giving, Way

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tombstone, Dignity, Headstone

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• Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

  Mary Oliver

  Weed, Voice, Blue

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.46, Beacon Press

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• As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Saying Nothing, Characteristics

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• Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

  Francois Fenelon

  Order, Taste, Genuine

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• Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

  Tim Ferriss

  Time, Work, Management

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• A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Three, Fine, Characteristics

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• We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Dream, Memories, School

  Banana Yoshimoto (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.117, Grove Press

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