Quotes of: Word Keyword

During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illu...

Joshua Foer

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Maggie Nelson

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

Sarah Kay

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

Spoken Reasons

Why did this disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate.

1 Litre of Tears

Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word , and, on rare occasions, .

2666

Politicians give criminals a bad name. A bad name like a bad word like shit.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Expecting to receive a rebuke, her heart lifted when she read the words on the page, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Amish by Accident

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

The Accidental Caregiver: How I Met, Loved, and Lost Legendary Holocaust Refugee Maria Altmann

Sex is an act of pleasure and an expression of love. How better to communicate one’s deepest feelings than without the clumsy use of words? — André Chevalier

Accuse

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Anne of Green Gables

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

An Abundance of Katherines

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

An Abundance of Katherines

I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now.

Allegiant

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

The Alchemist

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

Allegiant

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

The Abolition of Man

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".

Aphorisms

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

Allan Quatermain

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

Atlas Shrugged