Language Quote by John Gilmore

“And it occurred to me then how it took hours, sometimes day, for the surface of a river to freeze over-to hold in its…

— Nam Le

“The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.”

— Amy Joy

“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patten of the right…

— Greene

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved on stone momuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

— Pericles

“What was true and solid begins to slide, dissolve. Your thoughts unravel faster than a satin ribbon Whose edge hasn't been burned Until you…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

“Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,’ she said softly. ‘They speak what will be, not what we…

— Barbara Erskine

“Well, you know how a river moves a mountain.” The words surprised me at first, but I knew where they were coming from. “Stone…

— Lisa Wingate

“The words slid fluidly off my tongue, with only an occasional stammer. I could only attribute it to the sweep and flow of water…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Our lives are but a splash of water on a stone, nothing more. Then I am the stone on which they fell, and they…

— Naomi Wallace

“Maybe one day the words will pour out like so many others, easy and smooth and on their own. Right now they take pieces…

— Victoria Schwab

“...I meditated on the passage of time, and how it may be found in both a dry and a wet or gaseous state; how,…

— M.T. Anderson