Quotes of: Word Keyword

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Aleph

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

after the quake

The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.

Heretics

Word of mouth—it’s more powerful, more convincing, and more audible than word of hand.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us.

Improper Pleasure

Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.

Itsy's Ugly

Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

Jesus-Shock

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.

Rise of the Morningstar

[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

Rise of the Morningstar

A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.

Smog City

Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

In Search of the Word: Selected Essays

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

The Name of the Wind

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

Land Mines and Ladyboys: Flirting with Danger in Thailand and Cambodia

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

Lud-in-the-Mist

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

Last Words: The Final Journals

I believe the Lord has chosen me to spread His word through my words and who am I to question His plans for me?

The Memory Box

We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…

The Spell of Summer

And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

Sister