Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true...
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided agai...
Men of few words are the best men.(3.2.41)
It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of words. It is a plague afflicting language, revealing itself as a loss of cogn...
It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.
There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. It's just a feeling, I guess - something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and suppor...
Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.
Writing for children isn't easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn't interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader's imagination through somet...
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing t...
I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, i...
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and s...
Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.
Speech is civilization itself. The word even the most contradictory word preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
If a literary man puts together two words about music one of them will be wrong.
What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' T...