“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“ Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am… — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
With 'More Than Words,' we wrote that, so we are that. I'm just happy people can connect with any of our songs.… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
“You should be careful when using these endless words. An acquaintance of mine once was fortunate enough to discover the most impressive… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Personally, I think the silent films were more effective for L&H, but the sound was of great value in enhancing the effects… — Stan Laurel Copy Share Image
“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts, as they become your words. Watch your words, as they become your actions. Watch your actions, as they become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love,… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
It's not about me - four simple words that described the life of Christ. Do you call yourself a Christian? Well then,… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
“In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Is there a certain song you love, or a photograph? Perhaps there is a movie you keep returning to over the years,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...If only Dad hadn't cheated. If only Mom had found a way to be happier. If only Nina hadn't run away. If… — Harper Bliss Copy Share Image
He keeps my eyes open to giving and recieving. Not only in material things but by using kind words to others and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Master doesn't try to be powerful; thus he is truly powerful. The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
We know that one out of three New York City workers is a gig worker, or self-employed, independent contractor. We have all… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, or making friends. It's about doing what you love the best you know how. It's… — Billie Sue Mosiman Copy Share Image
“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' -… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“And when he surfaces to a cramped hand, a crick in the neck, the sunlight shifted across the floor, a sore blink,… — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book,… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard someone tell a story but felt they are just mouthing the words without being emotionally connected? When you… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney won the GOP nomination on a platform of 'self-deportation' for illegal immigrants - and the Obama team never let Hispanics… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Loving words are difficult for me. I know my feelings won't get throught to you. You're blocking the way. And so am… — Setona Mizushiro Copy Share Image
“Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into moments in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“There are some words that seem to well up from inside me without reason. I will be walking along an empty hallway,… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
I know some people would be like, 'Why are you responding to these racists on Twitter?' Sometimes it's for the purpose of… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget,… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is -… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
Typical tech-driven companies or hardware-driven companies always lay out the so-called roadmaps when it comes to making the new hardware. So, in… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
When I realized I could write lyrics and let someone that I knew listen to them, but not know that the song… — King Krule Copy Share Image
“But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
![“The Master doesn't try to be powerful; thus he is truly powerful. The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never has enough. The Master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary man is always ding things, yet many more are left to be done. […] Therefore the Master concerns…” quote by Lao Tzu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/141/lao-tzu-624_above_the-master-doesn-t-try-to-be-powerful-th_2657628.jpg)
![“But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.” quote by William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/621/william-shakespeare-4_men_but-indeed-words-are-very-rascals-since_1266764.jpg)
