Abstract Words Quotes

#1. I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

Georges Simenon

#2. The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.

Chris Hedges

#4. Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

Julian Jaynes

#5. There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than words, or in abstract words such as Sin or Creativity. I just don't understand. And incomprehension is boredom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.

Sophia Amoruso

#7. In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.

John Van Hamersveld

#8. Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Debasish Mridha

#9. What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not just a conduit for words. For me it is like an abstract dream in which everything makes perfect sense.

Azam Ali

#10. Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.

Charles Darwin

#11. To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

David Lynch

#12. Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#14. Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

Tim Berners-Lee

#15. He never understood why she chose him. She loved abstract things like music and books and strange words. Ove was a man filled entirely with tangible things. He liked screwdrivers and oil filters. He went through life with his hands firmly shoved in his pockets. She danced.

Fredrik Backman

#16. Don't act like you wouldn't see how many licks it takes to get to the center of his Tootsie Pop.

K. Bromberg

#17. The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude ... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.

Piet Mondrian

#18. No. She couldn't stay here. She could not stand to be lost to the darkness forever, when there was still a whole universe she'd never seen.

Marissa Meyer

#19. Charlotte Yates didn't especially care for music. All that abstract mooning about. Words, that was what moved people. A good play was worth a thousand symphonies.

Magnus Flyte

#20. After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

Henry Miller

#21. For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Jasper Fforde

#22. A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words,

Susan Sontag

#23. Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Paul Engle

#24. I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

Katherine McCoy

#25. Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Etel Adnan

#26. Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

Julien Benda

#27. Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of abstract equations.

Scott Adams

#28. I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#29. I don't like pop music.

Michael Jackson

#30. To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

Rob Bell

#31. When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#32. Enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

Jaron Lanier

#33. The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as a definite, abstract statement of fact. So it is from the first words ... to the last, the works of the Father are declared as facts, not theories.

Anthony W. Ivins

#34. In order to detain the fleeting apparition, he must enchain it in the fetters of rule, dissect its fair proportions into abstract notions, and preserve its living spirit in a fleshless skeleton of words.

Friedrich Schiller

#35. When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.

Teresa Amabile

#36. Painting is ... a richer language than words ... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

Jean Dubuffet