513 quotes found
“Puns are a form of humor with words.”
“Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.”
“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
“Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.”
“…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her ...”
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
“But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
“She kept watching the words.”
“Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.”
“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.”
“I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an i...”
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”
“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.”
“He only had the imperfect medium of words.”
“He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.”
“His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.”
“Around a child, people come and go, objects appear and are taken away, surroundings take shape and disintegrate. And no explanation is given, because how can you explain the world to a child?So she...”
“She wished such words unsaid with all her heart”
“Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. ‘God.’ ‘Science.’ Meaning.”
