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Words Quotes by Cornelia Funke
- If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing…
- This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between…
- Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out…
- Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I…
- How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
- Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the…
- She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through....
- My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the…
- So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice,…
- Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds…
- Words are immortal - Elinor
- Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.
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