#words

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#drank #dust #frame #grew #his

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety. ↗

— William Drummond

#bridle #cometh #destroy #guard #lest

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past. ↗

— Franz Boas

#characteristics #determined #environment #geographical #in other words

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. ↗

— Tim Allen

#area #avoid #comment #end #large

Where words fail, music speaks. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#music #speaks #where #words

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#between #choose #creator #define #group

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. ↗

— Joan Baez

#been #come #crawled #down #good

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#float #formless #intangible #interpreters #lack

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#broken #caresses #complete #demands #kind

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. ↗

— Martha Beck

#anyone #basic #brain #contact #exchanging