Onomatopoetic Word Quotes & Sayings

Glint, glisten, glitter, gleam ...
Tiffany thought a lot about words, in the long hours of churning butte. Onomatopoetic , she'd discovered in the dictionary, meant words that sounded like the thing they were describing, like cuckoo. But she thought there should be a word that sounds like the noise a thing would make if that thing made a noise even though, actually, it doesn't, but would if it did.
Glint, for example. If light made a noise as it reflected off a distant window, it'd go glint!And the light of tinsel, all those little glints chiming together, would make a noise like glitterglitter. Gleam was a clean, smooth noise from a surface that intended to shine all day. And glisten was the soft, almost greasy sound of something rich and oily. — Terry Pratchett

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I've died but I opened my eyes again. — Tablo

It is silly not to hope, he thought. — Ernest Hemingway,

Palm Key he got itt," and some other snatches, mostly single words and unintelligible. I could not help wondering who it was that had "got itt," and what "itt" was — Robert Louis Stevenson

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop. — John Podhoretz

Let's get deeper.
Let's go past the flesh.
It takes thought, to really get into this. — Shaune Bordere