Quotes about wording

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“He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.”

“As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.”

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse." Page 316”

“She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.”

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

“There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.”

“Insane is such an ugly word, a voice in my head said. Think of it as obtaining a new look at reality.”

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”

“There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.”

“No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.”

“I can’t believe Sadie’s going to let me have the last word. Our experience together must’ve really taught her something. Ow, she just hit me. Never mind.”

“Every tounge bit had another word to say.”

“Born
of Black
and White, Eaten
with worms,
I'm a Saint, a Sinner,
a Siren of the
Word, The Circle
knows me, the rest
just wanna trip on
Grace Juice, Baby
Showdown
at midnight”

“In love there are two things - bodies and words.”

“Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.”

“At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.”

“Sex pleasure in woman, as I have said, is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”

“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!”

“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.”

“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.”

“Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words
and not one of them can save me.”

“It's all very romantic," Gabriel said, and then frowned. "Or it would be, if my brother could get a word out without sounding like a choking frog. I fear he will not go down in history as one of the world's greatest wooers of women.”

“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”

“I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words”

“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

“I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.”

“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”

“The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.”

“I learned to love the feel of good words.”

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”

“Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.”

“This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.”

“In her eyes and in her touch I felt the echoes of my words.”

“To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.”

“And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.”

“Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.”

“Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.”

“When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.”

“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.”

“She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.”

“Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.”

“Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all theof that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.”

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

“Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.”

“There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.”

“[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.”

“It's [the word “sorry”] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.”

“Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.”

“Libertas et natale solum:
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.”

“There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.”

“As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.”

“I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.”

“Words are immortal - Elinor”

“Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.”

“While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.”

“The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.”

“The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.”

“I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:
I want to feel the darkness
of the cry. I want
words as rough
as virgin rocks.” - Verb.”

“I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.”

“I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.”

“War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.”

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

“Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself:. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.”

“That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.”

“words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”

“Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.”

“The words that matter always stay.”

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

“I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.”

“If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”

“Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.”

“Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.”

“it does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.”

“There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.”

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space…”

“Lips. There was something strangely, delicately
indelicate about the word, like a kiss
itself.”

“Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.”

“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.”

“Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”

“I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don't know if it came out that way. All I was feeling was despair. And envy. Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.”

“But words are vain; reject them all—
They utter but a feeble part:
Hear thou the depths from which they call,
The voiceless longing of my heart.”

“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”

“Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness…”

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously…. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”

“Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.
The god's voice—not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind”

“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”

“I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing”

“Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.”

“Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.”

“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”

“He wanted to give her another word to say, something like luscious or whisper or strawberry. Hell, antidisestablishmentarianism would do it.”

“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”

“If. A two-letter word for futility.”

“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

“I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”