Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency t...
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that h...
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...
Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.
Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because the abyss between what we are and what we would like to be has to be...
Don't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world!
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really...
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.
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's...
Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all...
Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.