I opened my mouth wide one time to see if the words I was thinking would fall out, but they wouldn’t. If… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Still. Four words. And I didn’t realize it until a couple of days ago, when someone wrote in to my blog: Dear… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Most of my life I was particularly terrified of speaking up, because I had a speech impediment, which made it difficult to… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's… — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
“We shall surely be remembered for something; something good or something bad; something mediocre or something noble; something great or something small!… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prior to working for Fox, I worked for ABC and NBC, spent a lot of time at CNN, and almost ended up… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
“Fuck,” said Bernie. “Fuckwinky eyeballhead.” “No, Bernie. We don’t use those words.” “Which words?” “You know which words.” “You used them, Daddy.”… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“I believe there are times when words can do a situation justice. If anything, trying to put the hurt into words is… — Chelsea Landon Copy Share Image
It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
“It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast.… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“• Dan: I love you. • Alice: Where? • Dan: What? • Alice: Show me. Where is this 'love'? I can't see… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Jean-Luc didn't like me to say any bad words in real life, and I would always do it on purpose, just for… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
“ Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda" [modern: Minä tahdon kernaasti puhua suomen kieltä, [mutta] en minä taida] ("I willingly… — Christine Wulff Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
Obviously, people give me their opinions of Dwane Casey and everything has been nothing but positive words about him - just the… — Andre Drummond Copy Share Image
Handwritten political posters - often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper - were ubiquitous… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
“Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
“Here's another poem, like all others before and after, dedicated to you. There isn't anything left to be said but I will… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Actions speak louder than words. There is a big difference between what people say and what they do. People might tell you… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
“And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You remember France, it's the country that financed the American Revolution... OK, it was in their self-interest, but still, they made it… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
“There would be another, less formal tribute to the best of the 1972 series: the name [Phil] Esposito eventually found its way… — Stephen Cole Copy Share Image
Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image