I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression ‘This is my Body’ means this is myself.

It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.

God’s words first… obey God’s law first before considering the laws of man.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around...

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language...

Deeds speak more than words.

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of...

Progressives’ don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Take it for words. O woman’s poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue!

Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

…why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain …that’s why …

They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons...

Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can’t, don’t, and won’t are the worst.

She said, ‘It is filled with all the words for how I want you.

So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough...

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or...

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among...

Pray. Not just with your words, but with your actions.

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

A single fleeting word has the power to make or break a person.

I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn’t experience. But,...

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong to the past as well as the present, and it can...

Smartass Disciple: What were said for things before the time exist?Master of Stupidity: No words to be said by no man at no time at all.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

The vocabulary of endearment, complaint, and abuse, provides, I think, almost the only specimens of words that are purely emotional, words from which all imaginative or conceptual content has vanished, so that they have no...

Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.

Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

[Alda concluded by invoking the words with which Jennings had closed his final broadcast in April, when he informed viewers of his illness.] Dear friend, … Thanks. And good night.

I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away; Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street, Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed...

I can’t put it into words. Somebody told me they were playing, `It’s a Small World’ when I was walking off. I didn’t even hear it. All I heard was how loud the crowd was...

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

The night before, I’d gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it’s true that I was hoping that in them he’d see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

Personally, I don’t choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That’s between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo.