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• Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

  Gautama Buddha

  Law, Speak, Fewer

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• Sometimes music comes across to me just when I am sitting around doing nothing, and then the music makes me think of a few words I might have written.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Thinking, Sitting, Might

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.76, A&C Black

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• A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Art, Photographer

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• Odd words floated back to them over the hundreds of heads. "Nobility of spirit"..."intellectual contribution"..."greatness of heart"...It did not mean very much. It had little to do with Dumbledore as Harry had known him. He suddenly remembered Dumbledore's idea of a few words, "nitwit," "oddment," "blubber," and "tweak," and again had to suppress a grin.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Mean, Greatness

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• I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.

  Joanna Lohman

  Essence, Labels, Impossible

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• My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  School, Sunset, Butterfly

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many.

  Carolyn Warner

  Able, Range, Difficult

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• In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, History, Greek

  Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.60, Princeton University Press

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• I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Trying, Use

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• If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Drinking, Sleep

  "Waits In Wonderland". Image Magazine Interview with Rip Rense, December 13, 1992.

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• Every parent who has ever said a few words over a goldfish in a toilet bowl
  or felt the numbness of an unexpected diagnosis in a pediatrician's office will appreciate the heartfelt wisdom in It's Okay to Cry. Norm Wright tenderly and skillfully equips parents to help children cultivate a healthy response to life's many pains and sorrows.

  Lori Borgman

  Children, Pain, Heart

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• If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sound, Use, Littles

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• Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'!

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Women, Might, Buried

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• A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

  David Hume

  Liberty, Revolution, Lines

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• ... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like
  or are poems.

  Lipman Bers

  Mathematics, Formulas, Amount

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• My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Divinity, Movement, Mankind

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama

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• I'm a facist about spoilers. I'm the biggest pain in the ass to the marketing and promotions department. If I had my way, the commercials would be 30 seconds of black with a few words on them.

  Brian Austin Green

  Pain, Black, Marketing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

  Anuj

  Ideas, People, Enlightening

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• I’ve lost someone, too,” he reminded her. “It’s not the same!” She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her tears. “I was so mean to him. I quit the piano! I blamed him for everything, and I didn’t say more than a few words to him for three years! Three years! And I can’t get those years back. But maybe if I hadn’t been so angry, he might not have gotten sick. Maybe I caused that extra… stress that did all this. Maybe it was me!

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stress, Mean, Years

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• All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Food

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition”, p.423, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: She was very articulate, more than me. She could say things in a very few words that I take a long time to communicate.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, Long

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• Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

  James Cagney

  Song, Men, Song And Dance

  James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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• David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

  Tom Brokaw

  Country, Icons, Tragedy

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• Someone spoke to me last night,
  told me the truth. Just a few words,
  but I recognized it.
  I knew I should make myself get up,
  write it down, but it was late,
  and I was exhausted from working
  all day in the garden, moving rocks.

  Dorianne Laux

  Moving, Writing, Night

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get up,/ Write it down, but it was late,/ and I was exhausted from working/ all day in the garden, moving rocks./ Now, I remember only the flavor--/ not like food, sweet or sharp./ More like a fine powder, like dust./ And I wasn't elated or frightened,/ but simply rapt, aware./ That's how it is sometimes--/ God comes to your window,/ all bright light and black wings,/ and you're just too tired to open it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Sweet, Moving, Writing

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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