Quotes of: Words Keyword

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

A Stitch in Time

Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality

The Space Between Us

You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness

A Sheep Amongst Wolves

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

The Shadow of the Wind

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at al...

Studies in Words

With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles.

At Swim-Two-Birds

Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts—

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.

Sylvester

When words can't make it better, hold my hand and don't let go.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. and are the worst.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Parents who always whisper the word "sex" unintentionally tell their kids, "I don't want to talk about this. Get your answers elsewhere.

Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

So …” Jack clears his throat. “We …” Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don’t have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.

Take a Bow

The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment.

Take Me to the Castle

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

The Truth About Forever

My dearest Pudding pie" I read aloud. "Yes, my little turnip?" "Hilarious," I muttered. "If you ever call me anything of the sort again we shall have words.

Threshold

Your mother is going to be fine," the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine. Was she fine before?

This Is How I Find Her

The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.

Therese