513 quotes found
“I want to be a mystery to you, untouchable,a star all to myselfa galaxy away from your starved fingers.”
“A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...”
“Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.”
“He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes in a race, jumping over hurdles, one after the other, go, go, go, flying towa...”
“We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!”
“Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.”
“...speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words...”
“... it's all words and only words, and beyond the words there's nothing... a word, which, like all the others, can only be explained by more words, but since the words we use to explain things, suc...”
“Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table”
“It is doubtful whether a supreme master of style could pack all the elements of truth that complete justice would demand into a hundred word account of what had happened in Korea during the course ...”
“Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.”
“And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.”
“You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!”
“If your words touch the hearts, thats good; if your words touch the minds, thats better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!”
“Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.”
“Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.”
“Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!”
“No writer can be the Master of the Words without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!”
“I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would be a pale little girl with hair the color of fall leaves and a dress a...”
“I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.”
