Words Like Quotes
136 Words Like quotes by 121 unique authors
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But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than…
— Alasdair Gray
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I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a…
— Galway Kinnell
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I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life…
— James McBride
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Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the…
— Lauren DeStefano
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So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big…
— John Marsden
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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…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a…
— Ray Bradbury
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I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
— Doris Lessing
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I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another…
— John Breaux
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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy…
— Zadie Smith
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His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.
— John Milton
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The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
— Mark Galli
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what…
— Walter Pater
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Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's…
— Jeanette Winterson
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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
— Marya Mannes
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We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out…
— Eleanor Brown
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There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.
— Jim Leach
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There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
— Jan Karon
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There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or…
— Stanley Clarke
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I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
— Lydia Davis
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Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.
— Bob Dylan
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You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was…
— Michael Fassbender
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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer,…
— Delta Goodrem
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