513 quotes found
“...but how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his?”
“No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.”
“Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.”
“Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications – those are the good words.”
“I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I’m having sex with words in front of you. I’m playing around with them. I’m getting off. I’m trying to titillate you. There’s this magical su...”
“When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.”
“Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.”
“It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.”
“Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them.”
“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger”
“Words are very powerful," Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. "And they take on more power the more they're spok”
“The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.”
“There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and so...”
“Eleanor let his words hit her full on.”
“The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally be lethal ar...”
“A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...”
“...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...”
“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.”
“If your words touch the hearts, that’s good; if your words touch the minds, that’s better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!”
