Dry Quote by Ellen Glasgow Download Open image “I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.” — Ellen Glasgow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dry Dry Tongue Fire Language Opinion Opinion Words Tongue Tongue Say Words Words Apt
I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
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Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Words are like weapons. They either create or heal wounds. So lets be mindful of what we say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
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Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image