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It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words. ↗

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#body #communicate #conscious #earth #few

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#old #short #words

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

#arrangement #choosing #composure #consists #few

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#his #more #nothing #professional #remedies

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#brat #crazy #happening #i #in other words

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself. ↗

— Angela Carter

#i #image #in other words #intimately #knew

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#four-letter #mother #tolerate #won #words

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #be nice #come #effort #enjoy

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. ↗

— Ferdowsi

#arrows #between #blows #descended #fierce