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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.


Voltaire
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda
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Words without thoughts never to heaven go.


William Shakespeare
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Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.


Thomas Kinkade
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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.


Jose Saramago
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I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.
Gene Luen Yang
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Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.


Douglas Horton
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.


Leonard Bernstein
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There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.


Mary Martin
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse
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Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.
Leonard Mlodinow
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Marianne Wiggins
The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
Ramana Maharshi
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.


Rene Descartes
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Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
Paul Rand
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Dinah Maria Mulock
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot
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Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.
Marissa Moss
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What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
Richard Eyre
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