Quotes of: Simple-words Keyword

Tell me you like it, Olivia. Say the words. Tell me I'm the only one who can set your body on fire like this.

A Beautiful Mess

I put the word "diagnosis" in quotes because I have not yet seen that case in which a "diagnosis" led to a "cure," or in fact to any outcome other than a confirmed, and therefore an enforced, debility.

Blue Nights

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams. And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

The Book of Promethea

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Basic Verities, Prose, and Poetry

What do you whisper to yourself? Speak and declare positive words to yourself. You are created for specific mission. You are special person.

Beautiful Quotes

My soul crave to walk with the Creator. My spirit sought to know the will of the Creator. My mind seek to mediate on the Holy words spoken by the Creator.

Beautiful Quotes

Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy"?

The Book of Questions

You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

The library serves as a gathering place for friends who share the love of books. It further serves as a resource for those who escape the pressure of everyday life, doing it by losing themselves in the written word.

Breathe

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

The Book Thief

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

The Beach Trees

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

The Bermudez Triangle

I wouldn’t use the word ‘man’. The Hebrew is , which I would argue encompasses both sexes.

The Book of Strange New Things

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays -- A New Translation

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

Broken for You

Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

Clockwork Angel

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

City of Fallen Angels

When I was a little kid, I realized that if you say any word over and over fast enough, it loses all it's meaning.

City of Ashes

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything.

Tom Stoppard

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of ...

Anthony Browne

You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.

Daniel Handler