At Carte Couture we are passionate about color, and life, and laughter, and thought, and the written word… and we love a good quote – because a sequence of words – at once eloquent, succinct, poignant, dramatic, profound, heartfelt or expository invites us to exercise our humanity - to think, to feel, to reason.
Words can cause us to celebrate, to honor, to reflect or to give thanks. Words can cause us to stop, agree, disagree; to better understand, and to grow.
Please feel free to leave your favorite quote – or a thought, on our quote board…
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“Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me.
Improvise! Rhapsodize!...
I ask for cream and you give me milk and water...
Please gather your dreams together into words.”
- Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac
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“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.” ― Emily Dickinson
“While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.” ― Kingman Brewster, Jr.
“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.” ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.” ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” ― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II.
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Wilson Watts
“Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.” ― Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing: A Play
“When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.” ― John Lennon
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.” ― Neil Gaiman
“A drop of ink may make a million think.” ― George Gordon Byron
“A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it’s story.” ― Sebastyne Young
“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.” ― Francis Bacon
“Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju.” ― Chloe Neill, Firespell
“That is the power of a good story. It can encourage you, it can make you laugh, it can bring you joy. It will make you think, it will tap into your hidden emotions, and it can make you cry. The power of a story can also bring about healing, give you peace, and change your life!" (p.15)” ― Jeff Dixon, The Key to the Kingdom: Unlocking Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom
“I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy...it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation.” ― Sarah Smith, Chasing Shakespeares: A Novel
“You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.” ― Ben Galley
“The menu is not the meal.” ― Alan Wilson Watts
“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.” ― Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
“One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” ― Al David
“ ‘A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.’ But eventually, truth gets booted and spurred, and the lie gets a good licking.” 1996 National Review 6 May 6
“He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.” ― Robert Cormier, I Am The Cheese
“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.” ― Alan Wilson Watts
“To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.” ― Stephen R. Lawhead, Arthur
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one” ― C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)
“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” ― Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, 1931-1990)
“Life gives us brief moments with another...but sometimes in those brief moments we get memories that last a life time...”
“We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.”
“The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.”
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” ― Oprah Winfrey
“Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.” ― Christian Nevell Bovee quotes
“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.” ― Hazel Lee quotes
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” ― Douglas Adams (British comic Writer, 1952-2001)
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." ― Oscar Wilde
“I have nothing to declare but my genius.” ― Oscar Wilde, at Customs Control in New York, 1882
“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
―Kevin Arnold
“A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.”
“No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.” ―Leo F. Buscaglia (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love, 1924-1998)
“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.”
“You never know when you're making a memory.”―Rickie Lee Jones quotes (American Singer and Song Writer, b.1954)
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” —Aristotle
“I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” —Woody Allen
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ― George Eliot
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― G.K. Chesterton
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” ― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
“Peace begins with a smile..” ― Mother Teresa
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” ― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln
"To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it." ― Cornell West
