We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail AdamsTag: words action vocabulary
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Slogans are mere wordsuck...
Gabriel ThyTag: words poetry slogans suck
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
Virginia WoolfTag: words reading books literature fiction
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David ThoreauTag: words reading books literature
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John BunyanTag: inspirational words prayer christian
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.
Ray BradburyTag: words reading books literature
We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder... as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us--the recognition of something we never knew was there...
Alberto ManguelTag: words reading books literature
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo CalvinoTag: words reading books literature meaning classics
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: words reading books literature
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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