Uttering Quotes

44 quotes by 42 authors

A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a… — Steven Pinker
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. — Walt Whitman
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it.… — Peter Cameron
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers… — E E Cummings
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make… — George Eliot
If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so… — Louise Erdrich
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master… — Henry Miller
....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or… — Daniel Quinn
When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. — Christopher Paolini
Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and… — Anita Shreve
... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars'… — Bret Easton Ellis
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. — Noam Chomsky
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the… — George Orwell
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual… — Charles Dickens
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one," I said, amazed at the words I was… — Orhan Pamuk
I would do anything for you. Anything." With that, he pushed his way out...and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you… — J R Ward
What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her… — Steig Larsson
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. — George Orwell
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Benjamin Disraeli

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