“I lie and repeat these words over to myself, and find that they are capital. Little by little others come and fit… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Particularly when I'm batting, I don't really hear anything that's going on. I block it all out. Maybe a little bit when… — Steve Smith Copy Share Image
If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“Words are never frail. They have all the powers to change the personality and features of a man. The way he relates… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
“ ineffable , adj . these words will ultimately end up being the barest of reflections, devoid of the sensations words cannot… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Being in somebody else's thing and saying their words and not having any right to change it - I don't know how… — Limmy Copy Share Image
I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“If we learn to listen to the others and try to capture the soul of their language, and can scent the fragrance… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
“Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“There are so many things to say; so many things that can't really be said. So much has happened; so little has… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm suspicious of absolutes. I mean, yes, there is something satisfying about watching an old film when the music rises up… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
The hardest part is writing a song as a story. A song is so short and there are only so many words… — Giveon Copy Share Image
Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to… — Adele Copy Share Image
I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The curse words, I have a problem with because that's not something you would say to me face to face. Where I'm… — Tommy Pham Copy Share Image
In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“This story is always yours for the telling. This has always been yours. You can expand to fill it all or take… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“It’s just words. How can words be dangerous?” “You have a lot to learn about the world, baby girl. Nothing is more… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
I personally never felt like I connected to a lot of characters, especially female characters, that were written the way they were… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“If a person is not inspiring you positively. There is no reason for you to be around them. You don't need their… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
“...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help… — An Na Copy Share Image
All my words are sort of shaped, all my words, my voice, my gestures, my imagination, are shaped by centuries, really. They… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
A formidable game of 'Name That Influence' could be based on the music of the seductive rock duo Girls: The band's first… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
“There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and at the same time… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to… — Eric Hill Copy Share Image
I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get… — Bibi Bourelly Copy Share Image
'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
