Quotes and sayings about tag  #words

Quotes and sayings about tag  words

56 Quotes

Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.

Maggi Richard

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Malcolm X

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Marcel Proust

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.

Marilynne Robinson

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

Muriel Barbery

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Oscar Wilde

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

Ovid

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

Patti Smith

Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.

Rachel Vincent

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

Ray Bradbury

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

René Descartes

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

Roald Dahl

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

Roald Dahl

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

Roger Zelazny

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

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Samuel Butler

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Stephen King

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

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

Steve Martin

In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)

Thomas à Kempis

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

Virginia Woolf

Me, poor man, my libraryWas dukedom large enough.

William Shakespeare

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth

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