Quotes of: Word Keyword

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.

Nicholas Boyd Crutchley

To create a word is simple. But to create a world – to think – that’s hard.

The Word Exchange

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

George Saunders

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

Joaquin Andujar

They were just words we forgot ourselves in those words. The words then devoured us a whole.

Jeremy Limn

Nicky Santoro: So in other words - I'm fucked. Ace Rothstein: In so many words, yes.

Casino

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and ...

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

I revere the word of God for I love its poetic force. I loathe the word of God for I hate its cruelty. The love is a difficult love for it must incessantly separate the luminosity of the words and the violent verbal subjugation by a complacent God. T...

Night Train to Lisbon

In the white man's world, language, too -- and the way which the white man thinks of it--has undergone a process of change. The white man takes such things as words and literatures for granted, as indeed he must, for nothing in his world is so common...

House Made of Dawn

So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice, words long and short, words sharp and soft, cooing, purring words. They danced through the room, painting stained glass picture...

Inkheart

The word “religion” has been hi-jacked and debased by the priests of faiths like these, until now it has become a dirty word amongst intelligent, right-thinking people in the Western world. The word “religion” springs from roots meaning piety...

Love

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challen...

The Rooster's Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice

I want to create a word that means “There’s probably a word for that,” but there’s probably a word for that.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it’s story.

Sebastyne Young

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

Moby

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Christine McVie

you'll accomlish more with a kind word and a gun, than you will with a kind word alone.

Al Capone

The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving con...

Killosophy