Word Burst

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or burst:

“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”
—William James (1842–1910)