#verb

Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....] Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#verbosity #equality

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#i #i do #idioms #make #rhythms

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#articulate #great #lovers #really #road

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#applying #arsenal #concept #establishment #expressions

There is still nothing on the proverbial scoreboard. ↗

— John Motson

#proverbial #scoreboard #still

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#advises #another #any #before #contradict

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#crazy #friendship #love #nick-o-leary #norah-silverberg

Nick stands up and offers his hand to me. I have no idea what he wants, but what the hell, I take his hand anyway, and he pulls me up on my feet then presses against me for a slow dance and it's like we're in a dream where he's Christopher Plummer and I'm Julie Andrews and we're dancing on the marble floor of an Austrian terrace garden. Somehow my head presses Nick's t-shirt and in this moment I am forgetting about time and Tal because maybe my life isn't over. Maybe it's only beginning. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#love #magic #nick-and-norah #nick-o-leary #norah-silverberg

Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#education #inspiriational #proverb #sharing #women

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way. ↗

— Libba Bray

#proverb #revelation #suffering #wisdom #wisdom