513 quotes found
“-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.-Because the reader changes.-EXACTLY”
“Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despairSing your songs of health and loveOf dragons flaming from above”
“All words are written in the same ink,'flower' and 'power,' say, are much the same,and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'all over the page, the paper would not be stainednow would I bleed.”
“Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or ...”
“I thought I would be understood without words.”
“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
“...choosing words is harder than I thought.”
“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”
“The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense...”
“Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They're grown right here in our orchards.""I didn't know that words grew on trees," said Milo timidly."Where did you think the...”
“He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.p92”
“A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.”
“The word is a prism through which the two beams shot from heart and head are refracted into the colours of the Universe.”
“I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.”
“What are words if you really don't mean them when you say them?”
“He only had the imperfect medium of words.”
“I love bright words, words up and singing early;Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,Like midsummer moth...”
“I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.”
“All our words from loose using have lost their edge.”
“Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.”
