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Words Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This…
- The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the…
- These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about…
- We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even…
- All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
- I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy…
- the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
- Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
More Words Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila