Quotes of: Kind-words Keyword

Echo looked around at her sea of tomes, and a single word came to mind: tsundoku. It was the Japanese word for letting books pile up without reading them all.

The Girl at Midnight

I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean.

A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A Novel

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

Gravity

Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle

The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners are alike appalled by their inefficiency, above all their maddening unpunctuality. The one word that no foreigner can avoid learning is mañana.

Homage to Catalonia

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

The Books of Magic

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry

Bricks could be used as words in the saying of a mason. When words and actions match up, you have a structure people could live in. It's a lot to live up to, and a lot to live in. 

Brick

One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

Ben Katchor

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Aleph

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

after the quake

The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.

Heretics

Word of mouth—it’s more powerful, more convincing, and more audible than word of hand.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us.

Improper Pleasure

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

Itsy's Ugly

Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

Jesus-Shock

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West