English language Quote by Tim O'Brien Download Open image “Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.” — Tim O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare English language Genuine Gravity Language Mass Substance Weight
Words Are The Only Weightless Thing In This World That Can Actually Make You Feel Heavy Think And Use It Properly... — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. — Clark Coolidge Copy Share Image
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've learned that my word carries weight, and that's something I have to always have to keep in mind. — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I learned that words make a difference. It's easier to cope with a kicked bucked than a corpse; if it isn't human, it doesn't… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The story' Sanders would say "the whole tone, man, you're wrecking it." Tone?' The sound. You need to get a consitent sound, like slow… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“They were afraid of dying, but they were even more afraid to show it.” — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“He thought about the difference between good times and bad times, and how funny it was that he could not state the difference, only… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Fine’s a funny word, don’t you think? I don’t think there’s another like it in the English language that says so much while actually… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless . . was a word, certainly, but much more than a word, it was a concept. "Nevertheless" was what you said when you… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Nothing was worse than a bovine with a 150 IQ trying to wrap its stunned mollusk tongue around the finely tuned syllables of the… — Gary Anderson Copy Share Image
English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
