513 quotes found
“How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.”
“English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.”
“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.”
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”
“Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.”
“When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.”
“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”
“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”
“We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we dont care if they make sense or nonsense.”
“Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.”
“In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.”
“The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a who...”
“And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.”
“There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, ...”
“Say something worth the words.”
“nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.”
“sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red.”
“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
“I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.”
“Besides, I always feel safer when I've got words against my heart.”
