#word

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#brother #met #waxed #way #word

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#book #closely #cube #dark #even

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#character #characters #does #i #i write

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going. ↗

— John Green

#last-words #death

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#language #power-of-words #words #men

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ↗

— Mark Twain

#between #bug #difference #lightning #right

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#becoming #doing #ended #i #mind

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#combine #dictionary #evil #good #good and evil

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#because #both #different #guys #only