Fence Quote by Tim Seibles Download Open image “Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.” — Tim Seibles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fence Green Language Slides Slips Vines Way White
Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life. — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can hide in… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands. — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath israrely found. — Alexander Pope 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 the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep… — Richard Eder Copy Share Image
Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Words are seeds they land in our hearts and not the ground. Be careful what you plant and careful what you say. You might… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Missing someone is like hearing a name sung quietly from somewhere behind you. Even after you know no one is there, you keep looking… — Tim Seibles Copy Share Image
“And if the air is chilly she feels it - in fact, if you put your hand on her arm you would know she… — Tim Seibles Copy Share Image
“...so she stays there remembering the warmth of honey between her toes, with her blood not humming, with the sound of the name almost… — Tim Seibles Copy Share Image
“Some days I can go nearly an hour without thinking of the taste of your mouth.” — Tim Seibles Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence. — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image