Quotes of: Simple-words Keyword

Lea found that she was saying things, saying them pretty loudly, but had no clear concept of what she was saying. [Sean and Andy’s] names, maybe. The seventy-two names of God. The capitals of all fifty states. Love. That word featured in there a lo...

The Visitor Entertains: A Friendly MMF Ménage Tale

I had a dream about you. You told me you circled three words in three books scattered in the Library of Alexandria, the one that supposedly burnt down centuries ago. You wouldn’t tell me what words, what books, or give me any clues at all, so I jus...

Dreaming is for lovers

This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, live for a moment, and die. Strange, is it not? I myself have no opinion. No and no again. But still, there are words you will need to have. There are...

Paul Auster

Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself among them. I am older than most sorcerers so what I know may, indeed, be clo...

Robert Fanney

Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. “Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a...

John Steinbeck

Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or indirect connection - as if a word could become an object...

Jack Spicer

Ralphie: Oooh fuuudge! Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Only I didn't say "Fudge." I said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the "F-dash-dash-dash" word! Mr. Parker: [stunned] *What* did you say? Ralphie: Uh, um... Mr. Parker: That'...

A Christmas Story

Lucy: I won't read the word! Sam: I'm your father and I'm telling you to read the word. Cause I can tell you to because I'm your father. Lucy: I'm stupid. Sam: You are not stupid! Lucy: Yes, I am. Sam: No, you are not stupid 'cause you can read that ...

I Am Sam

What is a writer? A writer is a magician who can create a masterpiece With a wave of a pencil A writer has the key to a new world Capturing readers and taking them on a roller coaster ride away from reality But a writer can be a commanding tyrant Or ...

Love

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Saudi Arabian

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Japanese

DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want.

Closer

You can’t be miserable when you’re running. It’s such a simple and pure way to feel alive.

Brooke

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Spencer

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

Steven Price

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

Jaime Hernandez

It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.

1Q84

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Siddhartha

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The most effective form of activism is kindness.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

This very moment is your greatest adventure.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life