“ The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw… Carlos Fuentes
“ Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity d… Richard Mitchell
“ I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“ Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a ca… Derek Landy
“ A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice. Paul Fleischman
“ He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.p92 Frances O'Roark Dowell
“ I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have… David Levithan
“ How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. Theodore Dreiser
“ All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what real… Nora Raleigh Baskin
“ Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving… Jose Saramago
“ I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbelieva… Dave Eggers
“ A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary. Ari Marmell
“ This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. Samuel Johnson