Quotes tagged ‘Words’

“Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

“It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

“Words mean what you want them to mean.”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

“Why are some things easier to write than say?”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

“'My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners—my behavior to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?' 'For the liveliness of your mind, I did.'”

— Darcy, Elizabeth, amazon.com

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

— Darcy, amazon.com

“Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.”

— Betsy Cornwell, amazon.com

“I might never have the courage to say the words out loud, I might lose them altogether, they might stick in my throat and choke me in my sleep.”

— Paula Hawkins, amazon.com

“His words fell through him, trying to find the floor of his sadness.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com

“I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that I’ve got great news. The bad news is that I don’t know what adjectives are.”

— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com

“As humans, we waste the shit out of our words. It’s sad. We use words like ‘awesome’ and ‘wonderful’ like they’re candy. It was awesome? Really? It inspired awe? It was wonderful? Are you serious? It was full of wonder? You use the word ‘amazing’ to describe a goddamn sandwich at Wendy’s. What’s goi…”

— Louis CK, esquire.co.uk

“He tells you everything you want to hear, but doesn't show you the things he says. Actions speak louder than words, so if he's just filling you up with charming and charismatic words, without proving what he says is true, it's time to move on.”

— Christy Goldstein, yourtango.com

“Hip is not a hip word.”

— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com

“I am haunted by you and the haunting is stealing the words from my heart and the clarity from my mind.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com

“I love introverts. They don't waste words.”

— Alexei Maxim Russell, amazon.com

“The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.”

— Elif Shafak, amazon.com

“I would always look for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, look: she existed.”

— Meghan O'Rourke, amazon.com

“For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.”

— Junot Dìaz, youtube.com

“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.”

— Mark Twain, amazon.com

“This Spanish wine has all the dryness of rattlesnake skin abandoned between the forked thoughts of an Arizona moon. Moon tinged with bruises on one side. If this wine truly is a snake then it has silk scales and the warmth of a deep kiss pressed by a complete stranger against the lips of last night'…”

— Alan Britt, amazon.com