"Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words."
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"All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you’re bound to hit upon at least a few great ideas eventually. Sausage donkey swallows flying guillotine, my love assembly line."
"Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it."
"Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page."
"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."
"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
"I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself."
"By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle."
"Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?"
"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."
"I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!"
"The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts."
"Puns are a form of humor with words."
"Her words are her wings. She's flying."
"In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action."
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart."
"The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
"Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over."
"Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects."