“Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women" Perhaps I was born kneeling, born coughing on the long winter, born expecting the kiss… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship,… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
“V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
It's depressing that ambition and feminism have become almost dirty words for working women. But, there is no reason that they should… — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know,… — Yuna Copy Share Image
As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. You… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We could try and establish a world in which the great and the powerful adhere to that international law which they require… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
~Words hurt and words cause pain. words coat your heart in a vast lonely stain such words have made me wonder inside… — Angel_eyes Copy Share Image
This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film,… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“Whatever characterization one may choose to place on Satan, "imbecile message maker" doesn't fit. This was no third-ranking demon out there in… — William E. Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've never owned a T-shirt. I don't like vests or sweaters or cardies with zips. I like a proper shirt with a… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see my students, especially the ones with a gift for the lyrical, reaching far outside the realm of their own… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Words kept salted when they cannot be found fresh. Words kept fresh when they cannot be found clean. The words go deeper,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When you sit players in front of doctors and surgeons, they use big, fancy words, and sometimes players get lost. It's hard… — Harry Kewell Copy Share Image
People live in their part of the Union, and if they don't travel a lot, then there is a tendency to believe… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“I don't even like the word ‘indoors’. It doesn’t make sense. According to you right now, by stepping through the doorway I’d… — Natalie Bina Copy Share Image
It's tough to describe into words. It's a long way. It's easy to say some good things, but it's tough to do.… — Andrey Rublev Copy Share Image
Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have to try so hard as an actor;… — Dule Hill Copy Share Image
“I wonder sometimes why we don't have more words to express forgiveness. The words we use are so trite, so limited. How… — Edmond Manning Copy Share Image
“How can our words ever truly be our own? Since we started growing all we've been taught is to care how we… — A.y.c.c Copy Share Image
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well.… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
In 1996, President Clinton put together a detailed agenda called 'A Bridge to the 21st Century' that told voters why, in his… — Al From Copy Share Image
“It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world… — Charles Lambert Copy Share Image
I just write like a grown man, because that's what I listen to. I'm not even speaking complicated English... I don't do… — Earl Sweatshirt Copy Share Image
It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
An act goes much farther than a word will ever travel. Even when someone is silent, in different situations this silence is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“technology imperiously commandeers our most important terminology. It redefines “freedom,” “truth,” “intelligence,” “fact,” “wisdom,” “memory,” “history”—all the words we live by. And… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
“It happens like this. "One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
