#word

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#just #nothing #one word #play #shadow

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#becoming #democratic #evidently #more #sense

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#chloe #closed #curse #doors #even

It's only words... unless they're true. ↗

— David Mamet

#true #unless #words

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight. ↗

— Maya Lin

#convey #down #editing #goal #i

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ↗

— David Lodge

#company #dictionary #each #end #laid

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#american #any #description #drop #else

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#birth #death #fear #more #than

Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#common #directly #inorganic #life #may

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#giving #i #i think #in other words #myth