“ Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. Mo Udall
“ There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putti… Jordyn Wieber
“ My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. Olivier Messiaen
“ When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less. Lewis Carroll
“ What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of ano… Carl Sagan
“ We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We read in slow, long motions, as if drifting in space, weightless. We read full of prejudice, malignantly. We read generously, making excuses for the text, filling gaps, mending faults. And sometimes… Manguel Alberto
“ There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the fe… Adam Gopnik
“ The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
“ The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble Kate DiCamillo
“ Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet. Virginia Woolf
“ Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the grav… Diane Setterfield
“ Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know eithe… W. Somerset Maugham
“ I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away; Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street, Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed to… Charles Baudelaire
“ I never knew words could be so confusing, Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear.Only when you use a lot to say a little, answered Tock.Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing… Norton Juster
“ I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything tha… Henry Miller
“ For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over eac… Stefan Zweig
“ Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it’s a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind… Gregory Maguire
“ Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes – characters even – ca… Diane Setterfield
