I’d developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick – my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing...

The three most dreaded words in the English language are ‘negative cash flow’.

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown...

How can love’s spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?

Words are winds.

It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines.

Sword and words—same letters, and same ability to cut down.

You mean less to me than the dog s__t I scraped off the bottom of my shoe!

Spelling Bees are useless and unnecessary competitions. Before Microsoft Word and Google, Spelling Bees had value, but now they are all superflewus.

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

Words his soul danced to.

In other words, liberal presidents appoint liberal justices who continue to take liberal positions for a while. Ditto for conservatives. But as new issues come to the Court, or as the justice for whatever reason...

His voice was like soothing melted chocolate. I wanted him to ooze his lovely voice all over my naked body.

I think a man’s “wordplay” can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!

Write as if Time will erase every word.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

It’s important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank me, give fire to my words, my words, mother, my heart beats in my words.

Gods? Don’t let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don’t even have to have powers anymore. In my time I’ve seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller...

What we’re doing, or, I should say, what you’re doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes into people’s brains to cause a neurochemical reaction to knock out the filters....

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

…at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams,...

These words are the same ones that the late Imam (Khomeini) said,

It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach the other side – just like I want the words. I want my words to...

I don’t think of poetry as a ‘rational’ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement...

All in all, I’d heard people do a lot of things with words. I’d heard them not say what they meant and I’d seen them not do what they said, but I’d never met a...

We have these words ‘space’ and ‘time,’ but you can’t touch them. They’re not objects, they’re not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize...

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it’s the same the other way around.

The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was a defeated power. Despite the fine words and some limited...

I’m very proud of ‘The Words’ and all the cast. I think Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman are like new directors, and I really believe in them, and they’re gonna rock everything.

What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my...

…there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

Words alone are certain good.

…the words make our silences easier–they’re the current that runs under them.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.

Don’t let someone’s words blind you from their behavior.

One can simply never take back the words he spoke.And when you know you unintentionally did hurt someone, instead of letting it go or keeping a distance from that person, you can actually do something...

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

His writer’s words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn’t find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other...

Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and...

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other...

Słowa same poprowadzą. Słowa wszystko na wierzch wywleką. Słowa i z najgłębszej głębi wydrą, co gdzieś boli i skowycze. Słowa krwi upuszczą i od razu lżej się robi.

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if...

Unless followed by the world ‘education’, liberal has now lost this meaning [seeking knowledge or doing something for its own sake — i.e. ‘freely’ with no exterior motive]. For that loss, so damanging to the...