Quotes by Writers - Page 119

We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact with books, and yet, in comparison, there are only a tiny number about whose meaning, sense, and denotation we would have absolutely no doubts, if one day, we were to ask ourselves seriously what they meant. Thus we affirm and deny, thus we convince and are convinced, thus we argue, deduce, and conclude, wandering fearlessly over the surface of concepts about which we only have the vaguest of ideas, and, despite the false air of confidence that we generally affect as we feel our way along the road in verbal darkness, we manage, more or less, to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
José Saramago
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.
Rebecca McKinsey
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
Hilary Mantel
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
A.S. Byatt
Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
José Saramago
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
A.S. Byatt
Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.
Aldous Huxley
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.
Herta Müller
Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.
Dejan Stojanovic
Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
Dejan Stojanovic
Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute.
Dejan Stojanovic
Procreation annihilates eternity.
Dejan Stojanovic
The universe is God's son.
Dejan Stojanovic
Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.
Dejan Stojanovic
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.
Dejan Stojanovic
Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.
Dejan Stojanovic
Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.
Dejan Stojanovic
Life is only a flicker of melted ice.
Dejan Stojanovic
Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.
Dejan Stojanovic
Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.
Dejan Stojanovic
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
Dejan Stojanovic
Universe is the Sun watching its own self.
Dejan Stojanovic
Sunbathe from within.
Dejan Stojanovic
Absolute equals nothingness.
Dejan Stojanovic
Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.
Dejan Stojanovic
How does one say something new and not retell?
Dejan Stojanovic
After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?
Dejan Stojanovic
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.
Dejan Stojanovic
Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.
Dejan Stojanovic
Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
Dejan Stojanovic
He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.
Dejan Stojanovic
Wherever there is somebody else, a war is not far away.
Dejan Stojanovic
Say No! Accept the burdens of revenge.
Dejan Stojanovic
If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.
Dejan Stojanovic
When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
Dejan Stojanovic
We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.
Dejan Stojanovic
Do not look too far for you will see nothing.
Dejan Stojanovic
Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.
Dejan Stojanovic
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
Dejan Stojanovic
We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.
Dejan Stojanovic
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
Dejan Stojanovic
We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.
Dejan Stojanovic
Teaching others, he corrected himself.
Dejan Stojanovic
We need knew knights, but without swords.
Dejan Stojanovic
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.
Dejan Stojanovic
All those big words produce disgust today.
Dejan Stojanovic
Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.
Dejan Stojanovic
Your head is a lit chamber.
Dejan Stojanovic
Either you will be you or you will not be at all.
Dejan Stojanovic
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
Dejan Stojanovic
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
Dejan Stojanovic
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
Dejan Stojanovic
The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.
Dejan Stojanovic
Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
Dejan Stojanovic
How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
Dejan Stojanovic