Quotes About Manipulating Words

#1. Why on earth had I agreed to this? Oh, that's right. He suckered me into it with his manipulating words and those damn dimples.

Ella Frank

#2. Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.

E. Lockhart

#3. When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

Dan Aykroyd

#4. I don't see any reason to let law interfere with justice around here. We never did before.

Sid Fleischman

#5. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany. And treads on it. Then

Terry Pratchett

#6. Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

Jeffrey Veen

#7. He wasted his wishes on wishing.

Shel Silverstein

#8. If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack Nicholson and because he does a wonderful job, but because he is a threat. The bad guy is someone people will have in their minds forever if it's a good bad guy.

Jordi Molla

#9. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

Alan Moore

#10. Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.

Sonia Choquette

#11. I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.

Terry Pratchett

#12. This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

Shirley Knight