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Words Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough…
- Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to…
- As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.
- Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
- In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and…
- ....Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
- ...Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]...
- If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this…
- I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words…
- And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or…
- The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.
- Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human…
- I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years,…
- Words never mean what we want them to mean.
- In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children,…
- Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of…
- As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used…
- Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent…
- It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.
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