Quotes and sayings about tag  words

56 Quotes

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Muriel Barbery

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Gail Carson Levine

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

Roald Dahl

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.

Rosamund Hodge

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

H.P. Lovecraft

How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.

Steve Maraboli

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

Steve Martin

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

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