#word

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#beavis #censorship #did #down #i

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow. ↗

— Gwen John

#anybody #distort #i #i am #know

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. ↗

— John Pearson

#both #considered #expressed #many #more

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but that its emotional heart would lie in her own unhappiness for having failed to find the one thing she wanted. For the first time she was a character in her own writing, and her frailties and mistakes were trapped on the page by the beauty and unsparing focus of her prose. Towards the end it was a battle to finish a page. The story was the story she had told herself for decades, deep within her own mind, and now as it grew, line by line, on the paper before her, she wrestled with each turn in the path all over again, as if it were still possible to change its course with the power of her words. ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#failing #frederick-weisel #story #teller #weisel

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning. ↗

— Hanns Johst

#culture #hear #i #release #word

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#boycott #careful #how #using #word

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#because #blah #feel #feels #great

I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day. ↗

— Edward Klein

#day #every #haven #hillary #i

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. ↗

— Stephen King

#because #brought #diminish #feelings #get