“ It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done. Sophocles
“ I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them. Alexis Hall
“ Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone. Jennifer Niven
“ The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment. Jonathan Safran Foer
“ Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal… Jasper Fforde
“ She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild quirk… Jasper Fforde
“ The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them. Jasper Fforde
“ ...Newspapers, popular fiction, and magazines churned out words by the million, and the worn coins of everyday speech were less and less able to communicate anything more than the most commonplace mea… Lachman Gary Larkin Steve
“ At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16 Felix Wantang
“ For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take me back to her. Sarah Waters
“ I read everything in that dusty little library. I read the prologues and the epilogues until I could tell you how many times Stephen King thanked his wife, Tabitha. I could tell you how the Columbia I… Rene Denfeld
“ One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much. Charlotte Bronte
“ Words flow from love, and speech is likewise confounded by love. It is the sweetest gesture to be without words, and with words, all the same. So too is it with the lighthearted sigh – an outward expr… Zechariah Barrett
“ Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid. Then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think th… George Carlin