A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.

In the works of Shakespeare, the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company...

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of “green”?

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don’t and live in a world I can only enter through words.

I collect words–they are sweets in the mouth of sound.

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did...

Sometimes when I’m writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they’re really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

In the shade of words sits life itself.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common...

There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.

im the type of talkactive person, but once im silent. that only have two things,first ; im falling in love,second ; I hate Liar.they could be both ; yes im falling in love with a...

THOUGHTS are the WORDS supported with the ACTION and both are not independent of each other to produce results.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.

Don’t always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful.

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories.

Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who has come to see you off, to wave you into the dark waters...

Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!Search the fading letters findingSteadfast in the broken bindingAll that once was I!

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don’t know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

When you’re having an asthma attack, you don’t have any breath. When you don’t have any breath, it’s hard to speak. You’re limited by the amount of air you can spend from your lungs. That’s...

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense...

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku.

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I’m too busy dancing with...

This is a sensitive phase, and it is not enough to deal with it with promises, empty words and catchy slogans that jeopardize the destiny of our people,

Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize ‘The stars are words’ and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize...

Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words.

I want to be a mystery to you, untouchable,a star all to myselfa galaxy away from your starved fingers.

Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

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He asked me an important question, so I said nothing, but silently reached for a piece of paper and scribbled down the words: Peacocks love peach cobbler.

Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or...

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works...

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world...

Once your words fly out of your mouth, you sometimes can’t control whether they fly straight or crooked, Grandma Augustine says. “They can get bent in the strangest ways.” Grandma Augustine says that the only...

We’re homebodies. I’ve gotten to see my kids’ first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.

Out of dumbness, out of confusion, arise the true words.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They’re grown right here in our orchards.””I didn’t know that words grew on trees,” said Milo timidly.”Where did you think they grew?”...

Sometimes Silence Is Better In Explaining Something Than Words….

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

Words are only words

Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces— and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered...

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we...

I stalk certain words… I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me,...