“ You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balco… Michael Eric Dyson
“ Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. Ferdinand de Saussure
“ Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate. Lynn Coady
“ The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. Mark Twain
“ A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
“ This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum,our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts,nothing you could touch. Vern Rustsala
“ I belong to clever words and bedtime storieseven a good riddle or twoI belong to the sound of musicand dance to my own rhythmI belong to the sunlight on a chilly autumn daywhen the world awaits a new… M.J. Abraham
“ Love is a funny word. We use it so much that we seem to forget its meaning. We say we love objects, seasons, times of day, movies, TV shows, and everything. And we use this same word to describe peopl… H.W.
“ Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial; the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destruc… R.A. Lafferty
“ Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say. E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
