Quotes of: Word Keyword

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.

Bark: Stories

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Bossypants

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

The Book Thief

Words of love cast from thy lips reach another heart at lightning speed.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger

The Book Thief

If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?

Black and White

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

Black and White

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.

Boarded Window

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Brave New World

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

Gene Barry

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Alan Moore

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

Elton John

I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.

Ana Ivanovic

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

Nick Nolte

One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of readin...

Walter Kirn

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

Stefano Langone

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Antoine Predock

I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.

Alex Grey

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Josef Albers