#words

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake. ↗

— John Bunyan

#either #god #heart #oft #our

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do. ↗

— Corey Feldman

#doing #gun #hired #much #off

Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#academic #also #america #consider #debt

Music is only love looking for words. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#love #music #only #only love #words

Freeing oneself from words is liberation. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#liberation #oneself #words

Words are illusions. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#words

On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been asked about them so often that in the end she had started a blacklist of banned words to which everyone could refer. Every time someone thought of a new one, she unflinchingly wrote it down... Rose read through the list, and turned back to her letter. These are the words I learned to spell in Mummy's art class today, she wrote, and sighed a little as she began the tedious job of copying from the board. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#little-girl #swear-words #art

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. ↗

— George Eliot

#our #where #wings #words #would

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#books #fact #in fact #longer #mastered

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something. ↗

— Mike Epps

#falling #hilarious #i #just #learned