Quotes of: Word Keyword

A word to the wise an't nesisary its the stupid ones who need the edvise.

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

Memories are't like words; they're soft and gooey. Covered with a sticky slime, like a penis after sex, or your vagina when you menstruate, and shaped like tadpoles or tiny watersnakes

Piercing

Mary-born Lord, humble us so that we also might say, "Let it be with me according to your word.

Prayers Plainly Spoken

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

The Phantom Tollbooth

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

The Phantom Tollbooth

The word bollocks seems strong, punk rock, and imposing, but in reality, bollocks is always too tame to make much of an impact.

Perverse Wonderland

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.

Raw Blue

I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

Ricochet

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

Radiant Days

...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.

The Transformation of Man

For the first time she called it sex. With no time or desire to analyze her words, he shook off an unidentifiable hollow sensation forming in his middle.

Temporary

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.

Thin Places

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)

Tinker's Plague

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Think and Grow Rich

Reginald “If” Ifa IV died today. His last words were, “Death, the great What if.” I dreamt this, but that doesn’t make it any less what iffier.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

Today I’m feeling uncharacteristically chiaroscuro, and I don’t know what that means for my future, or as a word.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

And who did she have? The thought caught her up short, but then she smiled, remembering the preacher's words. She had the Lord. He was her foundation, and that was enough.

Trouble in Store

Instead of reciting her an original love poem using words, I think I’ll use my tongue to more creatively explore the deepest parts of her.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

His last name was Worthless. Or was that just the perfect word to describe him? Shouldn’t our names summarize who we are? If so, I want to be called Al Auttalovetogive.

This Book is Not FOR SALE