Quotes about wordplay

Natalya Vorobyova -

Justice has to be cold. Deal with it it's just ice.

Novalis -

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself does not want to understand

Lisi Harrison - Monster High

I dunno." She sat on the bench and hugged the robe like a pillow. "I still think that Brett guy is cute.""Good luck getting him away from Bekka." Cleo gathered her silky black hair into a high pony and pink-dabbed Smith's Rosebud Salve on her lips. "She's got more grip than Crazy Glue.""More cling than Saran Wrap," Lala added."More hold than Final Net." Cleo giggled."More possession than The Exorcist," Lala managed."More clench than butt cheeks," Blue chimed in."More competition than American Id

Julio Cortázar - Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

Siddhant R. Shinde -

Life never be serious with you it always make fun of you so learn to have fun.

George Bernard Shaw -

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Dorothy Parker -

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Woody Allen -

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?'Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.'Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.'I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain.

Alan Dapre - Porridge the Tartan Cat and the Brawsome Bagpipes

Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that.

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman

Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even vicious: they are only “frail.” They are not artistic: they are only lasci

Joe Hill - NOS4A2

Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren’t. Mostly the real world s-s-s-suh-sucks. But everyone also lives in the world inside their own head. An inscape, a world of thought. In a world made of thought—in an inscape—every idea is a fact. Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerf

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impos

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Leave your incidental Dick.

Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere

Now me,” said Mr. Vandemar.“What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated Mr. Vandemar. “It’s between one and a lot,” he added, helpfully.

Lewis Carroll -

Alice sighed wearily. `I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, `than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.'`If you knew Time as well as I do,' said the Hatter, `you wouldn't talk about wasting it. It's him.'`I don't know what you mean,' said Alice.`Of course you don't!' the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. `I dare say you never even spoke to Time!'`Perhaps not,' Alice cautiously replied: `but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.'`Ah! that

Dorothy Parker -

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Why it's simply impassible!Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Nothing's impossible!

Dorothy Parker - While Rome Burns

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We're safe.Arthur: Oh good.Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. that I wasn't previously aware of.

Dorothy Parker - While Rome Burns

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

Benjamin Franklin -

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Junnita Jackson -

I think a man's "wordplay" can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!

Dorothy Parker -

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Charles Lambert - With a Zero at its Heart

It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world is changed. One letter separates Word from World, and that letter is like the number one, or an 'I', or a shaft of light between almost closed curtains. There is an old letter called a thorn, which jags and tears at the throat as it's uttered. Later he learns that Grammar and Glamour share the same deeper root, which is further magic, and there can be neither magic without that root, nor plant.

Initially NO - Percipience: Outside the Range of Understood Sense

Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.

Shannon A. Thompson - Seconds Before Sunrise

War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.

Henry James - The American

The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation, though monotonous, might be of a cheerful cast.

Stefanos Livos -

These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.

Oscar Wilde -

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Natalya Vorobyova -

Assassins: they got sass and live on sin.

Dorothy Parker - The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

Leslie Austin - A Fox Called Woff

Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.

Robert Lynn Asprin -

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

David Scheier -

Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

Evy Michaels -

Why do I love poetry? It's more than word play, less about the pay. Let's just say that for the first time in along while I stopped running, stared back at my darkest worst and said, 'Come here, you belong with me

Evy Michaels -

Why do I love poetry? It's more than word play, less about the pay. Let's just say that for the first time in a long while I stopped running, stared back at my darkest worst and said, 'Come here, you belong with me

Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth

How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying."And, sure enough, as soon as they were all quite still, it began to move quickly through the streets, and in a very short time they arrived at the royal palace.

Jasper Fforde - The Well of Lost Plots

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

Siddhant R. Shinde -

Thanks liver... you are a champ!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb -

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Adam Young -

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.

Sara Sheridan - Brighton Belle

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau -

Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.

Sonya Loveday - The Summer I Fell

See, admit it, you need my help.” “Fine. I need you… your help.” My admission made Ace’s half smile bloom into a full one. He really was devastatingly handsome. And so very, very unattainable. “What makes you say that, Riles?” His thumb brushed up my neck, as his other hand splayed a little wider along my hip. “Huh?He winked at me. “I’ve never been unattainable.” I stood there, dumbfounded. “I said that out loud?

Lemony Snicket - The Reptile Room

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know.""I know," Klause said."I know you know," Violet said

Django Wylie - The Middle

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.

Natalya Vorobyova - Better to be able to love than to be loveable

When I pass the bar, you'll be barred from bars but put behind them.

Jessica Fortunato - Steam

The Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful boutique, the name filled me with dread.

Natalya Vorobyova -

I tend to throw tantrums a lot. Wear a helmet in my presence.

Oscar Wilde -

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys

It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.

Sara Sheridan - Secret of the Sands

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

Zane Stumpo - Schrodingers Caterpillar

Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile.

Natalya Vorobyova - Better to be able to love than to be loveable

I put the bra in brand, and I top it!

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everythingthat Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moralof that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

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