Importance Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

— Charlaine Harris

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it,…

— Haruki Murakami

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company…

— Charles Dickens

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

— Barack Obama

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

— Patricia A. McKillip

“His spelling was several degrees beyond arbitrary, and his punctuation brought reason to sigh with unhappiness. But”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do…

— Anonymous

“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from…

— François Mauriac

“From his endless work had come a great industry, great personal gain, but happiness? It was a word he would have puzzled over, unable…

— Ann Patchett

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of…

— Ayn Rand

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez