#words

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing. ↗

— Trick Daddy

#mean #nothing #rappers #really #rhyme

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#although #bodies #centuries #children #church

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#certain #certain degree #clearest #degree #distinct

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil. ↗

— Marc Davis

#animated #business #cartoonists #draw #film

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#thoughtful #too-little-too-late #family

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 would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ↗

— Richard Wright

#words #life

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#love

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#power-of-words #reading #imagination

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. ↗

— Woody Allen

#fruitful #guy #him #hit #i