Empty words Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos Download Open image ““The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”” — Augusto Roa Bastos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empty words Language Words
“The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.” — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have… — Jenny Baranick Copy Share Image
“Empty words are like droplets of rain pattering upon the ground. It is difficult to find a single feature that distinguishes one from another.” — Richard Cezar Copy Share Image
“The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.” — Eddie Cantor Copy Share Image
“But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“A dictionary is a ship that crosses the sea of words,” said Araki, with a sense that he was laying bare his innermost soul.… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“It's like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first” — Aaron F Withers Copy Share Image
“If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a… — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. — Augusto Roa Bastos Copy Share Image
“...our loves ones truly are ever-present. We may bury their bodies or scatter their ashes, but their spirits are boundless and do not accompany… — April Slaughter Copy Share Image
“And so you live like this, day after day, striving and fighting simply to become, or even better - to be. Something better, something… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Kindness is not about words. It isn’t spoken. It is about action. Kindness is a deed.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“A single wise word bringing peace to the listener is worth more than a thousand speeches of empty words.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“Your eyes say I lie when I call you my woman. This is not good. It is our bargain, eh?” He plucked a wisp… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers… — Molière Copy Share Image
“Empty words are like droplets of rain pattering upon the ground. It is difficult to find a single feature that distinguishes one from another.” — Richard Cezar Copy Share Image
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“So, You’re Rooting for Everybody Black, Right? Yeah right! Some of my Brothas and Sistas be straight up frontin’ and lying to themselves. Let… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
