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Word Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost…
- She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She…
- Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One…
- When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
- Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there…
- At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would…
More Word Quotes
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach