Quotes and sayings about tag  words

56 Quotes

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Helen Keller

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

Henry Miller

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Henry Ward Beecher

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

Jandy Nelson

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Jeanette Winterson

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Jodi Picoult

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

John Green

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.

Julie Kagawa

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.

Kiera Cass

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