Quotes of: Single-word Keyword

George: [last lines; voiceover] A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp. And the world seems so fresh as tho...

A Single Man

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

The Carnivorous Carnival

In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

A Dish of Orts

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Dracula

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

The Dispossessed

I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.

Diving Into the Wreck

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

Eat, Pray, Love

I've learned far too much to know everything.

Everyone Agrees: Book I: Words, Ideas, and a Universal Morality

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Embassytown

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

First Snow on Fuji

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Fanny's First Play

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

The Fridgularity

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.

Being Human

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Graham Swift

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

Pat Conroy

The word "ungodly and word-group" in Jude...It describes, not theoretical atheism, but practical godlessness.

2 Peter and Jude

They say actions speak louder than words, but in some cases, words hurt a lot more than actions ever could.

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