Begins Quote by Theocritus Download Open image “Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.” — Theocritus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Begins Language Torrent Words Trickling Sense Words Words Trickling
“My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“What I really devoured . . . was the truculence of my hosts' language: the syntax may have been brutally sloppy, but it was… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive excursions, in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Nothing is so tiring to the reader as excavating nuggets of meaning from mountains of words.” — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. — Theocritus Copy Share Image
Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides. — Theocritus Copy Share Image
Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song. — Theocritus Copy Share Image
Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are… — Theocritus Copy Share Image
When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins. — J. R. Celski Copy Share Image
Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,… — Leigh Mitchell Hodges Copy Share Image
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
