Quotes of: Words Keyword

One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger; it destroys at the speed of light!

Daily Drive 365

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.

Daniel Audio CD Set: Lives of Integrity, Words of Prophecy

Language ... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

The Eternal Now

Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.

The Elementary Particles

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

The English Patient

...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

A Familiar Rain

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.

Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude

Echo looked around at her sea of tomes, and a single word came to mind: tsundoku. It was the Japanese word for letting books pile up without reading them all.

The Girl at Midnight

I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean.

A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A Novel

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

Gravity

Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle

The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners are alike appalled by their inefficiency, above all their maddening unpunctuality. The one word that no foreigner can avoid learning is mañana.

Homage to Catalonia

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

The Books of Magic

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry

Bricks could be used as words in the saying of a mason. When words and actions match up, you have a structure people could live in. It's a lot to live up to, and a lot to live in. 

Brick

One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

Ben Katchor

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

All Quiet on the Western Front