#word

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently. ↗

— Margaret Smith

#contraceptive #frequently #repeated #word

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. (p 207) ↗

— Alain de Botton

#engineering #literature #simplicity #words #writing

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#content #focus #i #images #inadequate

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#inadequacy-of-words #painting #power-of-words #self-expression #art

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#books #language #life #reading #words

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #discovering #extraordinary #literature #ordinary

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#words #art

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#power-of-words #art

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. ↗

— Joan Miro

#colors #i #like #music #notes