“ Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper. Avijeet Das
“ Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn't? Nema Al-Araby
“ People are always saying these things about how there's no need to read literature anymore-that it won't help the world. Everyone should apparently learn to speak Mandarin, and learn how to write code… Meg Wolitzer
“ The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of… Daniel Hannan
“ 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! Jordin Sparks
“ Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson
“ I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, w… Newt Gingrich
“ Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams
“ If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. P. J. O'Rourke
“ Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows… Alice Miller
“ Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free. Jessamyn West
“ It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. Harold S. Geneen
“ When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them. I… Hilary Mantel
“ When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear. Terry Tempest Williams
