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• I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

  Mary Oliver

  Notebook, Writing, Journey

  Interview with Renee Olander, www.awpwriter.org. September, 1994.

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• Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Life Changing, Reality

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• El dinero es como la gasolina durante un viaje por carretera. No quieres quedarte sin gasolina durante el viaje, pero no vas a hacer un recorrido por las gasolineras.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Correr, Empresa, Empresario

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• La doctrina que, desde el primer origen de las disensiones religiosas, han sostenido los fanáticos de todas las sectas, cuando se condensa en pocas palabras y se despoja del disfraz retórico, es simplemente ésta: Yo tengo razón y tú no. Cuando tú eres más fuerte, debes tolerarme, porque es tu deber tolerar la verdad. Pero cuando yo sea el más fuerte, te perseguiré, pues es mi deber perseguir el error.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Religious, Errors, Atheism

  "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 60, 1843.

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• El que piensa mucho dice poco en proporción a lo que piensa. Elige el lenguaje que transmite sus ideas de la manera más explícita y directa. Intenta comprimir en pocas palabras la mayor cantidad posible de pensamientos. Por el contrario, el hombre que habla interminable y promiscuamente, que parece tener un almacén inagotable de sonidos, amontona tantas palabras en sus pensamientos que siempre los oscurece, y con mucha frecuencia los oculta.

  Washington Irving

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Ideas

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• When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Love Is, Sometimes

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.

  Mike Tomlin

  Jobs, Simple, Ideas

  "Inside Tomlin's Style: Humility, Words Matter for Steelers Coach". Interview with Jarrett Bell, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 31, 2009.

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• For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens) it has been used more and more economically for reasons of truth (Millet, Monet, Paul Cézanne) until it will end as the straight line for reasons of Love. This will enable the art of the future to create an international form; a form understandable to all and vital enough to the expression of a general feeling of love in a monumental way. Such is the future.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Expression, Feelings

  "Onafhankelijke bespiegelingen over de kunst" by Theo van Doesburg, De Avondpost Journal, January 23, 1916.

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• Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Maturity, Light, Roots

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• Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words.

  Scott Nicholson

  Tombstone, Names, Numbers

  Scott Nicholson (2010). “Kiss Me or Die: A Psychological Thriller”, p.4, Haunted Computer Books

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• It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.

  Edna Ferber

  Writing, Reflection, Tools

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• Tenemos tantas palabras para los estados de ánimo y tan pocas para los estados del cuerpo.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mente, cuerpo, estados

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• I was able to get a few words out that Scott Peterson was the Scott Peterson that had a missing, pregnant wife and ... I just shook. They said I was there probably like an hour and it just seemed like a moment ... I couldn't stop shaking. So I was, I guess, in shock.

  Scott Peterson

  Wife, Missing, Able

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• Mi padre era un hombre de pocas palabras.

  Ken Venturi

  Father, Men

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• The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.

  Neil Diamond

  Simple, Trying, Complicated

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• I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words.

  Hilary Swank

  Arte, Escritura, Media

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Los ensayistas no sólo deben ser sucintos, sino tener ideas originales y, lo que es aún más difícil de conseguir o de fingir, voces agradables. Conscientemente o no, se esfuerzan por conquistarnos mediante el encanto. Si un ensayista puede no sólo encantar sino escribir la frase inolvidable, la que revela el corazón en pocas palabras, soy su esclavo.

  Cyra McFadden

  Escribir, Corazón, Ganar

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• Mientras Frazier era un hombre de pocas palabras / Ali era un mundo de boca / pero encontró su lugar en la historia / Ahora su corazón puede expresarlo bien / Joe Frazier era un guerrero silencioso / a quien Ali admiraba en silencio / Uno no podía elevarse sin el otro

  Muhammad Ali

  Heart, Warrior, Men

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Me encantan las canciones porque por naturaleza son concisas, resumen. Intento utilizar el menor número de palabras posible. Suele ser más divertido así.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Trying, Use

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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 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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• Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an hour count; sometimes I'm just happy to string a few words together. I do keep pretty rigorous hours, because otherwise you never get anything done.

  Alice Sebold

  Together, Done, Pages

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn over this Book, and there I have, at one view, all that Perseus , Montaigne , Seneca 's Tragedies , Horace , Juvenal , Claudian, Pliny , Plutarch 's lives , and the rest, have ever thought upon this subject: and so, in a trice, by leaving out a few words, or putting in others of my own, the business is done.

  Theresa Villiers

  Book, Men, Views

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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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• Con qué pocas palabras, por ejemplo, los griegos habrían contado la historia de Abelardo y Heloísa, sin hacer más que una frase de nuestro diccionario clásico.... Nosotros, los modernos, en cambio, sólo recogemos las materias primas de la biografía y de la historia, "memorias que sirven para una historia", que no es sino material que sirve para una mitología.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, History, Greek

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

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