63 Quotes About Wordplay

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

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. Douglas Adams

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

Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them! ' [slurred Hellian.] 'With what?' [Banaschar] sneered. 'Explanations?' 'No. Answers. There's a difference-' 'Really? How? What difference?' 'Explanations are what people use when they need to lie. Y'can always tell those, 'cause those don't explain nothing and then they look at you like they just cleared things up when really they did the opposite and they know it and you know it and they know you know and you know they know that you know and they know you and you know them and maybe you go out for a pitcher later but who picks up the tab? That's what I want to know.' 'Right, and answers?' 'Answers is what I get when I ask questions. Answers is when you got no choice. I ask, you tell. I ask again, you tell some more. Then I break your fingers, 'cause I don't like what you're telling me, because those answers don't explain nothing! . Steven Erikson

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

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 Idol, " Frankie stuck out her chest and showed them her diva booty roll. The girls burst out laughing." Nice! " Blue lifted her purple gloved hand. Frankie slapped it without a single spark." I hate to be a downer.." Claudine shuffled back into the conversation wearing her slippers and robe. "But that girl will destroy you if she catches you with Brett.""I'm not worried, " Frankie tossed her hair back. "I've seen all the teen movies, and the nice girl gets the boy in the end. . Lisi Harrison

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 accounts for it, ' said the Hatter. `He won't stand beating. Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, time for dinner!. Lewis Carroll

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. Neil Gaiman

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 powerful as history. Creative people, like writers, and Henry Rollins, spend a lot of their time hanging out in their thoughtworld. S-s-strong creatives, though, can use a knife to cut the stitches between the two worlds, can bring them together. Your bike. My tiles. Those are our knives. Joe Hill

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. Robert Louis Stevenson

You know how there are words that never really–they are never really quite right. You can't quite trust them. Use them. You know. Without p Emma Richler

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 lascivious. They are not prosperous: they are only rich. They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self-controlled, only obtuse; not self-respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all: liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls. George Bernard Shaw

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

The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth. Criss Jami

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive. Criss Jami

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic. Criss Jami

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

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. He's lost in it like Chid in Child, or God reversed into Dog. Somewhere inside him is a colon. A sentence can last for life. . Charles Lambert

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. Initially NO

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

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. Henry James

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

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

People ask me where I got my x-ray powers. I inherited them from my parents in parental supervision. Erase the dots and your doubts if you think that I was 'raysed' alone. Ana Claudia Antunes

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

Hate school but love school and threat it right so you can be where you love to be all right? Mohlalefi J Motsima

Assassins: they got sass and live on sin. Natalya Vorobyova

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 Evy Michaels

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. David Scheier

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

Tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight! Dorothy Parker

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

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

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 Lemony Snicket

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

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

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. Unknown

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? . Sonya Loveday

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

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

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. Norton Juster

Thanks liver... you are a champ! Siddhant R. Shinde

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

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. Lewis Carroll

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

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

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