513 quotes found
“In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.”
“As soon as we conform anything to language, weve changed it. Use a word and youve altered the world. The poets know this. Its what they try so hard to avoid.”
“Explanation is a well-dressed error.”
“The most important questions are the ones we can't hope to answer with words. Words are like toys : they amuse and educate us for a time, but when we come to manhood, we should give them up.'Sunmer...”
“The world is alive with words”
“He'd been given every word he needed, and every word had been stripped from me. I wanted them back. All of them.”
“Words mean nothing.”
“Perhaps it's no coincidence that the word words is an anagram of sword. Well-used words cut through ambiguity and confusion like a sharp sword in the hands of an expert swordsman.”
“One day you will be nostalgic for today.”
“...you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.”
“You were none, and now you're all; your worth will rise, the more I fall.”
“Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.”
“There is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way--has an almost hypnotic effect.”
“I did not know that it was love until I knew.”
“It was from a very young age that I fell in love with this wonderful artifact--the turn of the first page is almost like a sacred ritual to me. Whenever I walk into a library, it is never without s...”
“For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.”
“Anything and everything, the two almost the same--everything says, have it all; anything, one to claim.”
“It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.”
“He deftly dealt his swiftest blow--I fell further than, I was meant to go.”
“Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.”
