“ Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. Leonard Mlodinow
“ The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate. Octavio Paz
“ He paid me to discover ways to express the unnameable; to get to the bottom of an utterance; to find words for the things for which there were no words yet, thereby bringing them into existence, commi… Ellen Miller
“ I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shap… Sidney Poitier
“ When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more inten… Jane Smiley
“ Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way. Jack Kemp
“ The wonderful thing about writers like [James] Baldwin is the way we read them and come across passages that are so arresting we become breathless and have to raise our eyes from the page to keep from… Edward P. Jones
“ It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of… Yehuda Berg
“ I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or someth… David Shields
“ And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them. Norton Juster
“ The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom. Jill Telford
“ The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is our word. Our action is the energy which transmits our emotions to the eyes of others and causes a… Ernest Agyemang Yeboah