Word Quotes (page 138)

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• him
• words
• washing

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young. David Brin

• words
• little
• bigs

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. Samuel Johnson

• wonderful
• evening
• wonder

When someone uses the phrase ‘the prick one’, and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word ‘metaphorically’, you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all. Nick Hornby

• hope
• words
• needed

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try. Margaret Drabble

• intelligent
• world
• fall

As scientific truths put us in an intelligent relaton with the cosmos, as historic truth puts us in temporal relation with the rise and fall of civilization, so does Christ put us in intelligent relation with God the Father; for He is the only possible Word by which God can address Himself to a world of sinners. Fulton J. Sheen

• sailing
• different
• family

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. Mark Haddon

• great
• words
• greatness

His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why. Roberto Bolano

• good
• strong
• words

I like good strong words that mean somethin? Louisa May Alcott

• god
• dream
• words

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world Alphonse de Lamartine

• evil
• different
• two word

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil. Graham Greene

• book
• emotional
• appreciation

I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity. Barack Obama

• thinking
• personality
• words

I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes. Jodi Picoult

• him
• road
• peace

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal. Rumi

• beauty her
• words
• beauty

She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself had searched until she found the poetry of 'beauty' and 'twilight' and cloaked herself in it. She made her living selling words. Isabel Allende

• love
• him
• my love

As at those words did I myself become; And all my love was so absorbed in Him, That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed. Dante Alighieri