513 quotes found
“To hunt words is to do no trespass.”
“You mean less to me than the dog s__t I scraped off the bottom of my shoe!”
“The words ran away with me.”
“If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.”
“Words Like FreedomThere are words like FreedomSweet and wonderful to say.On my heartstrings freedom singsAll day everyday.There are words like LibertyThat almost make me cry.If you had known what I...”
“I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, ...”
“People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other("Poem")”
“To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.”
“She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all the more terrifying.Words gave concepts power. Once they were released, there w...”
“And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.”
“Thomas loved words, particularly if he didnt understand them.”
“You may not have money, you may not have medicine, you may not have miracles, but you do have words, and they can produce life, or death depending on how you use them.”
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can gri...”
“Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.”
“It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it".”
“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.”
“Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a persons entire day with just a few measly sentences?”
“Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.”
“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.”
“The words explain us all, each having a meaning in a meantime: every time for a lifetime.”
