Words Like Quotes

136 Words Like quotes by 121 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. — John Milton
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
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
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
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. — Marya Mannes
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
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism. — Jim Leach
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
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names. — Jan Karon
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
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
Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark. — Bob Dylan
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
I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. — Emile M. Cioran
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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