Quotes of: Simple-words Keyword

I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

J. G. Ballard

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Sophocles

America’s problem, in a word, is politicians. In two words, it’s politicians and lobbyists. In three words, it’s politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers. And finally, in four words, it’s politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, and bankers.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the p...

I Am the Cheese

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

The Name of the Wind

. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving within the trees—then, fleeting words of consolation would not suffice if feigned, and flippant words confessed reluctance—our words were meaningless uttered on the wind. . .

paulinskill hours and other poems

Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.

Delirium

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.

We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere

Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere

These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words have been translated into ideas and dreams. That's because a good short story crosses the borders...

The Best American Short Stories 2003

Focus. Such a little word for such a hard thing and yet it can make things so simple, unless you break it. Like glass. Fragile on certain points with enough pressure ore carelessness, but if handled correctly, it’s useful, clear, sharp, and perfect...

The Beast In Me

Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is done for them that hard times permit. On the top of that it follows that, among real men, what counts is deeds, not words; and ...

Copse 125: A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

The Dhammapada

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.

Nicholas Boyd Crutchley

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

George Saunders

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

Joaquin Andujar

They were just words we forgot ourselves in those words. The words then devoured us a whole.

Jeremy Limn

Nicky Santoro: So in other words - I'm fucked. Ace Rothstein: In so many words, yes.

Casino

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and ...

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu