W Quotes
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“Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Words, like flowers, have their colors too.”
“Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.”
“Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.”
“Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
“Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.”
Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.”
Source: Personal Pleasures
“Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”
“Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.”
“Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.”
“Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.”
Source: Tomcat in Love
“Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida
“Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.”
Source: The spectator
“Words, without power, is mere philosophy.”
“Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.”
“Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed.”
“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me?”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“Words, words. They're all we have to go on.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.”
Source: The BFG
“Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.”
Source: Inkheart
“Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.”
Source: The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle
“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.”
“Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.”
“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.”
“Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
Source: Arcadia
“Words.” His tone sharpened. “I shared my house, my bed, and my blood with you, as well as offered you a place in my life forever. What are words compared to that?” I sighed, my anger dissipating as quickly as his flames had. “Oh, Vlad, if you believed that, you would’ve told me what I wanted to hear to just appease me. You didn’t, which proves saying ‘I love you’ means more to you than everything else.”
“Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?”
Source: Nadine and Other Poems
“Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.”
“Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.”
“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else?
The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!”
“Work - get paid; don't work - don't get paid. Everybody is on commission, .. Try not coming to work for six weeks. Work gets paid; don't work, don't get paid. When they earn those dollars, and when you're 4, and you clean up your room, it really means mom cleaned up the room and you did two toys. When you're 14, it means you cleaned up your room. But still, we got the money caused by work, and then, we have teachable moments on how to handle the money they earn.”
“Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.”
Source: Park Avenue Vet
“Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.”
Source: THE STORY OF A PIONEER: The Insightful Life Story of the leading Suffragist, Physician and the First Female Methodist Minister of USA
“Work ... is redemption.”
“Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.”
Source: The shop-talk of Edgar Degas
“Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.”
Source: The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Work a little harder, live a lot more lighter and love with great openness.”
“Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.”
Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout
“Work addiction seems to be an addiction we are proud of. We almost seem to brag with mock displeasure that we are "overwhelmed" with busyness, sometimes as an excuse for not really being able to do what we really want to be doing. Work addiction is a symptom not of working your brains out but of your brain working you out. Why are you doing what you're doing for a career and how do you like doing it? Do you like your answer?”
Source: Super joy: in love with living
“Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.”
“Work allows God to renew Himself”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Work allows you to discover a new you every time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”
Source: La vieillesse
“Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.”
Source: Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950
“Work alone qualifies us for life.”
“Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.”
Source: The Art Spirit