Quotes About Words

Whenever I hear a four-syllable word I get skeptical, because I want to make sure you can't say it in monosyllables.

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.

Doc is getting ready to do a Pap-smear on Reece)) Looks healthy, Doc commented. Good, because it hasn't been getting any exercise in quite a while. When she heard Willow smother a laugh, Reece just closed her eyes. She had to remember some old saying about being careful of thoughts. They become words.

Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are hard, it's perfect truth.

Oh bugger it. You want fancy words? Maybe I could pull some Yeats out or something." "No, no, no." Laughing, she got to her feet, and felt stronger and surer than she'd ever felt before. "I meant it. This is romance, for me, from you. If you could say it just one more time. The three words, the word that matters more than others.

that I've been requisitioned a coffeemaker." Eve

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

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When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.

Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.

When you understand, Brandy says, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, Brandy says, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

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When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

By that she means fully erect. Condom-ready.

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it. That first person had been introduced to the complicated DNA sequence of proper nouns and compound verbs. Outside of language he didn't exist. There was no method to escape. To feel anything, anymore, required ever-increasing amounts of words. Great landfills and airlifts of words. It took a mountain of talk to achieve even the tiniest insight.

In un mondo in cui le promesse non hanno valore. In cui giurare non significa niente. In cui si promette solo per poi non mantenere, non sarebbe male veder rinascere il potere della parola.

We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language.

Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.

Claudia's monotone had…softened. Emotions were now threaded through her voice, tying together her words. Were these emotions real? Or were they made up?