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222f4b3 Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them. words reason legal-arguments definitions foundation law logic Robert M. Pirsig
0d61157 Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations--that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls. words literature reading writing Richard Flanagan
03d19d9 twjd dy'man Tryq@ l`ml m , wldyn lrd@ l`mlh words work Isabel Allende
e332786 So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. words silence language speech Nicole Krauss
fa61d33 I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after. Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important. words music Jeffery Deaver
eea2f68 A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them until she learned to take them into her eyes instead of her mouth. words Patricia A. McKillip
bccdbb6 No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. For English is a language that simply cannot be fixed, not can its use ever be absolutely laid down. It changes constantly; it grows with an almost exponential joy. It evolves eternally; its words alter their senses and their meanings subtly, slowly, or speedily according to fashion and need. words lexicology Simon Winchester
f1870c0 The species greatest harvest -- words. words David Brin
4ac01b1 That (labyrinth)...became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one. After that careful walking and looking down, the stillness was deeply moving...It was breathtaking to realize that in the labyrinth, metaphors and meanings could be conveyed spatially. That when you seem farthest from your destination is when you suddenly arrive is a very pat truth in words, but a profound one to find with your feet. words maze labyrinth goal path walking Rebecca Solnit
9623922 The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words. words worlds Jack Kerouac
ad0bf54 Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word. words Mary Balogh
269de9e Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people's brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time. words persuade hustling persuasion Max Barry
b667fb0 Where everything is words, you'd think I'd have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning hatred, each man a verbal firing squad, immeasurable suspicions, a flood of mocking, angry talk, all of life a vicious debate, conversations in which there is nothing that cannot be said...no, I'd be better off in the jungle, I thought, where a roar's a roar and no one is hard put to miss its meaning. words jungle mastery suspicions Philip Roth
4803093 " The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning chill, a dozen or more old browns hidden in the shadows of the cottonwoods beside the streambed. I go higher to where the road gives up and there's only a faint path strewn with lupine between the mountain oaks. I don't ask myself what I'm looking for. I didn't come for answers to a place like this, I came to walk on the earth, still cold, still silent. Still ungiving, I've said to myself, although it greets me with last year's dead thistles and this year's hard spines, early blooming wild onions, the curling remains of spider's cloth. What did I bring to the dance? In my back pocket a crushed letter from a woman I've never met bearing bad news I can do nothing about. So I wander these woods half sightless while a west wind picks up in the trees clustered above. The pines make a music like no other, rising and falling like a distant surf at night that calms the darkness before first light. "Soughing" we call it, from Old English, no less. How weightless words are when nothing will do." words poetry Philip Levine
89d576e Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning. words semantics Cormac McCarthy
b4dbfa8 "Kipster is a perfectly valid word," Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. "Okay, so what does it mean?" Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it... it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her. "Well Sarah's on drugs again and that's why she did it in Mario's backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid's been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there's a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won't go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and...." Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she'd learned it from Jud's death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days." suicide words funny 80-s argue kipster cape-breton nova-scotia boring eighties drama-queen scrabble maturity coming-of-age canada pollution growing-up baby teenage fighting eating gossip bullying scary game drama self-harm nostalgia rumors Rebecca McNutt
fa8b21e A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope. words Patricia A. McKillip
c4179a6 Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, an in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me. Even in the night, in bed, they woke me. They painted themselves onto the ceiling. They burned themselves onto the sheets of memory laid out in my mind. When I woke up the next day, I wrote the words down , on a torn-up piece of paper. And to me, the world changed color that morning. words writing Markus Zusak
f2ef01f It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in love with it (grammar). It took Latin to thrust me into bona fide alliance with words in their true meaning. Learning Latin fed my love for words upon words in continuation and modification, and the beautiful, sober, accretion of a sentence. I could see the achieved sentence finally standing there, as real, intact, and built to stay as the Mississippi State Capitol at the top of my street. words meaning latin Eudora Welty
ab4e2a0 When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. words self Lewis Carroll
bcefdaa And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone besides me had suffered from these ambiguities and had seen light on their far side... that I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace. words literature reading books Jonathan Franzen
d74366d Words are not swords. words George R.R. Martin
0d73dd1 It sounds cool to say you are going to fight with a pen not a sword but violence with words is still violence .. words romance josei reality-quotes journalism manga swords Yayoi Ogawa
b811be2 Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life. words poetry Susan Hill
e1551eb "Keep this in mind: it is our religion to praise life. The word "life" is the king of words. The kingword surrounded by other grand words. The word "adventure"! The word "future"! And the word "hope"! By the way, do you know the code name for the atomic bomb they dropped on Hiroshima? "Little Boy"! That's a genius, the fellow who invented that code! They couldn't have dreamed up a better one. Little boy, kid, tyke, tot - there's no word that's more tender, more touching, more loaded with future." words Milan Kundera
36f2478 "I won't marry you," she repeated. "Why not? You were eager enough to fuck me." Anna winced. "I do wish you would stop using that word." Edward swung around and assumed a hideously sarcastic expression. "Would you prefer swive? Tup? Dance the buttock jig?" words romance Elizabeth Hoyt
1f971c0 For a long time, she sat and saw. She had seen her brother die with one eye open, on still in a dream. She had said goodbye to her mother and imagined her lonely wait for a train back home to oblivion. A woman of wire had laid herself down, her scream traveling the street, till it fell sideways like a rolling coin starved of momentum. A young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow. She had watched a bomber pilot die in a metal case. She had seen a Jewish man who had twice given her the most beautiful pages of her life marched to a concentration camp. And at the center of all of it, she saw the Fuhrer shouting his words and passing them around. Those images were the world, and it stewed in her as she sat with the lovely books and their manicured titles. It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. words memories death good-bye hitler Markus Zusak
4838597 Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am impressed by the sturdiness and reliability of words on paper... The will to record indelibly, to set down stories in permanent words, seems to me akin to the conviction that we are larger than our biologies. words literature reading writing Jonathan Franzen
95b55ed Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way? words Rachel Klein
f403a47 Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline. words writing Diane Setterfield
fa05003 It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of words. It is a plague afflicting language, revealing itself as a loss of cognition and immediacy, an automatism that tends to level out all expression into the most generic, anonymous, and abstract formulas, to dilute meaning, to blunt the edge of expressiveness, extinguishing the sparks that shoots out from the collision of words and new circumstances. words language Italo Calvino
d20fdf6 But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too. words writing language storytelling Madeleine L'Engle
ef2d0aa "Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous." "We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing." "That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing." words language-barrier languages-and-culture Jim Butcher
5483f2b It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation. words power-of-speech Tamora Pierce
d7fb939 I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything. Kids just have an easier time with words. words language-learning language-understanding language Brian K. Vaughan
ba8ea5f [...] it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...] words José Saramago
1d0217f The wonderful thing about writers like [James] Baldwin is the way we read them and come across passages that are so arresting we become breathless and have to raise our eyes from the page to keep from being spirited away. words writing wonder james-baldwin writers Edward P. Jones
e687b72 You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. words writing-life writer writing imagination writing-inspiration sandcastles writing-quotes writing-philosophy writing-craft writing-advice writing-process Anne Lamott
793c8b7 The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns. words truth patterns David Mitchell
6cbe2c6 Instead of the calendrical terms Monday, Tuesday and so forth, we cheerfully offer the following surrogates. Use them freely and often, for their use honors us all. For Sunday, please use Sunshine. For Monday. pleasy use Monty. For Tuesday, please use Toes. For Wednesday, please use Wetty. For Thursday, please use Thurby. For Friday, please use Fribs. For Saturday, please use Satto-gatto. words funny Mark Dunn
da184f1 What we're doing, or, I should say, what doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes into people's brains to cause a neurochemical reaction to knock out the filters. Tie them up just long enough to slip an instruction past. And you do by speaking a string of words crafted for the person's psychographic segment. Probably words that were crafted decades ago and have been strengthened ever since. And it's a of words because the brain has layers of defenses, and for the instruction to get through, they all have to be disabled at once.' Jeremy said, 'How do you know this?' 'Do you think I'm smart?' 'I think you're scary,' he said. words scary mind-control Max Barry
bdf22c0 Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest. fairy-tales words suggest end Joyce Carol Oates
afdecfc When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming. words sex language masculinity femininity Jeanette Winterson
23ac7d7 words are much stronger than I am. words voice Terry Tempest Williams
b63bde2 ...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words is one-sided, it's all just the half of it, lacking completeness, roundness, or unity. words truth siddhartha Hermann Hesse
8f2191b "Con las palabras todo cuidado es poco, mudan de opinion como las personas"." words fiction literature-communication opinion humankind José Saramago
92c0e3e DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt from Obscurity and nourished with Care, improved with Art and corrected with Application. Labour and Time are the Instruments in the perfection of all Work. words writing Peter Ackroyd
9b9a597 Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts. words wolf-by-the-ears unsaid-words speak Ann Rinaldi
610ce95 "Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind." words history thoughts memories past memory Gregory Maguire
b665e67 We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world? words world Ursula K. Le Guin
8d1d6dc Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. words literature suffering words-have-power stories Terry Tempest Williams
e5db13b If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu's words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind. words life hurt Arthur Golden
05b7021 It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier. words thank-you pretty E.L. Konigsburg
c35ef8b "Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had been engaged in examining old books for miraculous misprints such as the substitution of "1" for the second "h" in the word "hither." Contrary to Cynthia, he cared nothing for the thrill of obscure predictions; all he sought was the freak itself, the chance that mimics choice, the flaw that looks like a flower; and Cynthia, a much more perverse amateur of misshapen or illicitly connected words, puns, logogriphs, and so on, had helped the poor crank to pursue a quest that in the light of the example she cited struck me as statistically insane. ("The Vane Sisters")" words missprint mistake Vladimir Nabokov
b09ba68 Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young. words David Brin
6ce5ddd As he lay there, fragments of past states of emotion, fugitive felicities of thought and sensation, rose and floated on the surface of his thoughts. It was one of those moments when the accumulated impressions of life converge on heart and brain, elucidating, enlacing each other, in a mysterious confusion of beauty. He had had glimpses of such a state before, of such mergings of the personal with the general life that one felt one's self a mere wave on the wild stream of being, yet thrilled with a sharper sense of individuality than can be known within the mere bounds of the actual. But now he knew the sensation in its fulness, and with it came the releasing power of language. Words were flashing like brilliant birds through the boughs overhead; he had but to wave his magic wand to have them flutter down to him. Only they were so beautiful up there, weaving their fantastic flights against the blue, that it was pleasanter, for the moment, to watch them and let the wand lie. words Edith Wharton
96f3090 The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants them to be different from what they were yesterday, no matter what else he's serving, he's always serving meaninglessness. words trump Rebecca Solnit
2d002f1 Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words. words silence thoughts self-expression Elizabeth Gaskell
a874c3c When she thought of the letter beit, it was not of the thickness of lines or the exactitude of spaces. It was of mysteries: the number two, the dual; the house, the house of God on earth. 'They will build me a temple and I will dwell in them.' In them, not in it. He would dwell within her. She would be the house of God. The house of transcendence. Just a single, tiny letter, and in it, such a path to joy. words transcendence Geraldine Brooks
e9e3774 I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ... words stories Markus Zusak
37e8add We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life. words literature loss reading relationships Harold Bloom
3a1feac 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-' Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it. Wil's eyes stung. 'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.' words word-voodoo weapons persuasion Max Barry
29ffb97 Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is like a code tapped through a wall. Sometimes he asks me straight out: do you love me? and it is possible to tap back: yes, I love you. words speech Walker Percy
9f11fad She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases. words william-dean-howells mgg William Dean Howells
5e3060f Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain. money words time pain love-quotes literature marriage mind grief feminism loss history reading prayer nature world depression people women freedom dream joy future politics friends leadership quote work inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation family destiny imagination fantasy dreams sadness positive-thinking strength music friendship motivational spiritual heart endtime fiction-food-for-though humanity-humour intelligence-is-attractive life-and-living-life-philosophy magic-spirit meditation-men passion-peace patience-johnson pentecost reality-relationship trust-war earning motivational-quotes repentance wisdom-quotes society purpose quotes forgiveness self-improvement power self-help soul patience psychology Patience Johnson
9af2c5e If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not. words travel walking Rebecca Solnit
59910a8 Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain. words Markus Zusak
26ac237 The room was filled with smoke, dry worn-out smoke retaining in it like a web the insectile cadavers of dry husks of words which had been spoken and should be gone, the breaths exhaled not to be breathed again. But the words went on, and in those brief interruptions between cigarettes the exhalations were rebreathed. words William Gaddis
3b707a4 I lost my voice, but I had words. words writer writing Roxane Gay
ad09535 "With golden giftes and many a guilefull word words temptation greed gold Edmund Spenser
b4e636c Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them. words silence wisdom Jacqueline Winspear
63682d1 There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings. words stories Adam Gopnik
f24ce67 People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words. words influence james-baldwin writers Edward P. Jones
a41f2db Mendacity and vulgarity can only permanently affect those who resort to their use. (Ch 17) words vulgarity James Fenimore Cooper
450637a With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With these choices, many words can be indicated, and pointing or gesticulating usually works. words humor Aimee Bender
0fbcba7 The fly lands on the swatter. The movie runs backwards and catches fire in the projector. This species apes us well by talking only about itself words poetry Billy Collins
e54f223 "To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it's just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged. This isn't because what Jesus or Moses said was untrue or because modern society is in error but simply because the route they chose to reveal to others has lost relevance and comprehensibility. "Heaven above" fades from meaning when space-age consciousness asks, Where is "above"? But the fact that the old routes have tended, because of language rigidity, to lose their everyday meaning and become almost closed doesn't mean that the mountain is no longer there. It's there and will be there as long as consciousness exists." words meaning philosophy zen Robert M. Pirsig
5f2a4c4 Beware the treachery of words... Words seem to be well-woven baskets ready to hold your meaning, but they betray you with rotted corners and splintered stays. words Sena Jeter Naslund
7b24c32 I can arrange words on a page but I can't seem to organize books on a shelf. Over the years, My Secret has shelved thousands and thousands, held each one in his hands. He thinks they might have seeped into him, through his skin, as much as the books he's read. At night and on his days off we spend hours talking about writing. He reads three or four books at a time. When he's not working at the bookstore he goes to other bookstores around the city and browses until closing time. Holding more volumes in his hands, filling himself up with words. words writing books book-sellers francesca-lia-block the-thorn-necklace Francesca Lia Block
b1e65ec Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship. words literature reading writing Anne Lamott
cff3ccd Solution - A method of fixing a problem or situation. Solution is a positive Netiquette Word. NetworkEtiquette.net words good positive-words digital netiquette-rule internet-etiquette netiquette netiquette-rules fix online solution word nice internet David Chiles
2fda897 My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive. words language voice Terry Tempest Williams
ea8c73d As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad's memorial plaque. Truth doesn't lie in the heart of fortune... it's under Triumph Towers, where the labs are. words Beth Revis
2bd3a97 "I don't know why--it's just that--I don't know--they're not kin."--Surprising word, I think to myself never used it before. Not of kin--sounds like hillbilly talk--not of a kind--same root--kindness, too--they can't have real kindness toward him, they're not his kin -- . That's exactly the feeling. Old word, so ancient it's almost drowned out. What a change through the centuries. Now anybody can be "kind." And everybody's supposed to be. Except that long ago it was something you were born into and couldn't help. Now it's just a faked-up attitude half the time, like teachers the first day of class. But what do they really know about kindness who are not kin." words kindness family kin society language Robert M. Pirsig
670e75f But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off. words Gregory Maguire
e84ebed The only difference between life and death is that the living still have time, but the time to say that one word, to make that one gesture, is running out for them. What gesture, what word, I don't know, a man dies from not having said it, from not having made it, this is what he dies of, not from sickness, and that is why, when dead, he finds it so difficult to accept death. (Jose Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, p 122) words death life salvation redemption failure José Saramago
d4b6db4 It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing - how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles', your 'ideals' - and so damned little in the world has changed because of them. words principles Joyce Carol Oates
658ae49 The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments. words Don DeLillo
07ddba8 "A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas... to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time I just want to say - "Hello. We can hear you. The words survived." words literature books fame Caitlin Moran
f0641c7 a bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere words Emily Giffin
9bec75c If I am honest I will admit that I have always wanted to avoid love. Yes give me romance, give me sex, give me fights, give me all the parts of love but not the simple single word which is so complex and demands the best of me this hour this minute this forever. words love language Jeanette Winterson
75d7065 Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Able - having skill to do something. Intelligence is a synonym. NetworkEtiquette.net blog words good positive effective-communication proper status-update digital-etiquette internet-etiquette netiquette definition social-media word social-network nice David Chiles
1c266a3 "Should' is my all time least favorite words inspirational should Frank Beddor
93dea5d I noticed that women have a private language. A language not dependent on the constructions of men but structured by signs and expressions, and that uses ordinary words as code-words meaning something other. words women language gender Jeanette Winterson
3fff5bc "A book is a beautiful, paper mausoleum, or tomb, in which to store ideas... to keep the bones of your thoughts in one place, for all time. I just want to say - "Hello. We can hear you. The words survived." words literature books fame Caitlin Moran
77f4fc7 Words is but wind but dunts is the devil words Dorothy Dunnett
f63c83c !Ojala que a Rosaura la boca se le hiciera chicharron! Y que nunca hubiera dejado escapar esas repugnantes, malolientes, incoherentes, pestilentes, indecentes y repelentes palabras. Mas valia que se las hubiera tragado y guardado en el fondo de sus entranas hasta que se le pudrieran y agusanaran. Y ojala que ella viviera lo suficiente como para impedir que su hermana llevara a cabo tan nefastas intenciones. words palabras shit hurt Laura Esquivel
f0b765d "- Pacjent - powiedziala mi pewnego dnia Anna, juz blisko konca - to dziwne slowo. "Cierpliwy". A ja wcale nie jestem cierpliwa." words John Banville
4180e0c The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. words pain life Elizabeth Gilbert
e5de91b Arkhisan ta pegadakia. E Gkloria serbire to epidorpio. O Ntintie akoumpese to tsigaro tou sten akre tou piatou me ta amugdalota, skorpizontas stakhtes kai trimmata apo amugdalota kai epimenontas oti o Phroint eikhe dikio otan diateinotan oti e glossa einai o monadikos dromos pros to asuneideto. O Stanlei anteteine oti e glossa dotheke ston anthropo gia na krubei tis skepseis tou kai oti to mono pou mporouses na kaneis me tis lexeis etan na tis guriseis sto plai opos ta epipla ste diarkeia enos bombardismou. words freudian subconscious language thinking language-barrier Rachel Kushner
c393967 The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever written is written to be read and if some go unread that's only chance, failure, they're like grubs that die without changing. words writing China Miéville
1b2f3ad Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savoring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch. Cerulean, azure, blue. Shadowy, sombre, secret. Voluptuous, sensuous, amorous. Kiss, hiss, abyss. Some words sounded dangerous. Pagan. Tiger. Some words seemed to shine. Crystal. Glissade. Some words changed their meaning as I grew older. Ravishing. words Kate Forsyth
31e04c6 Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it's a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing. words reading Gregory Maguire
eb8c7fc I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what couldI tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. 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. None of those things, however, came out of my mouth. All I was able to do was turn to Liesel Meminger and tell her the only truth I truly know. I said it to the book thief and I say it now to you. I am haunted by humans. words humans stories Markus Zusak
a107ad8 She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble words writing Kate DiCamillo
da6e28e I suppose that words, timely and arranged in the right order, produce an afterglow. When you read words like that in a book, beautiful words, a powerful but fleeting emotion ensues. And you also know that soon, it'll all be gone: the concept you just grasped and the emotion it produced. Then comes a need to possess that strange, ephemeral afterglow, and to hold on to that emotion. So you reread, underline, and perhaps even memorize and transcribe the words somewhere - in a notebook, on a napkin, on your hand. words Valeria Luiselli
d9c8b44 There's another quote on the act of writing letters, have a look: Letter writing is a truly anachronistic genre, a sort of tardy inheritance of the eighteenth century; those who lived at that time believed in the pure truth of the written word. And we? Times have changed; words are lost with ever greater ease; you can see them float on the waters of history; sink, come up again, mixed in by the current with the water hyacinths. words Ricardo Piglia
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