Be careful letting those decadent words roll of your…

“It may sound dorky, but I love books- the feel of the paper, the old musty smell, & especially the way the words roll…

— Cheryl Renee Herbsman

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying…

— Gore Vidal

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...

— Gore Vidal

“ She has the filthiest tongue of any woman in France. Burn her mouth clean. ”

— Elizabeth Wein

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice.…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.

— Emily Murphy

My name is unpronounceable in your tongue, woman,” it said. “I’ll be the judge of that,” warned Granny, and added, “Don’t call me woman.”…

— Terry Pratchett

“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with…

— Michelle M. Pillow

Blest be the art that can immortalize.

— William Cowper

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

— William Cowper

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

— John Green

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

— Arthur Symons

“You cannot kill a man who is already dead. Instead, you actually immortalize him by continuing to speak his name.”

— Brandon L. Rucker

“Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?”

— Peter Shaffer

Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.

— Roman Genn