Books Quote by Harold Evans

“Words are like shards of glass. By themselves they're worthless; however, when placed together in just the right way, they can become great works…

— Leigh M. Lane

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“But I found out then, and never have forgotten since, that we never read the dull explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we…

— Mark Twain

“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word…

— A.S. Byatt

“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is…

— Philip Larkin

“Reading is a gift, but only if the words are taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“words are powerful and dangerous things … all those who read are searching — they seek to fill the empty portions of their souls. It”

— Shae Ford

“Words are mere tools of the mind”

— Joshua Wright

“We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left…

— Chuck Palanhiuk

“Words are nothing more than the sky, crying, thunderous crystalline bolts of pure esoteric passion from the deepest crevices that hide beneath my rib-cage…

— Susan Marie

“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer…

— Roland Barthes

“We do not create meaning out of a text; rather, we seek to find the meaning that is already there.”

— J. Scott Duvall