“ Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all manner of cracks and crevices to root. William E. Jefferson
“ As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. Jose Luis Borges
“ In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the g… John Piper
“ All in all, I'd heard people do a lot of things with words. I'd heard them not say what they meant and I'd seen them not do what they said, but I'd never met a person who could speak so simply and sti… Rachel Joyce
“ To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence. Steven Aitchison
“ 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
“ A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer. John Fowles
“ Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. Samuel Butler
“ In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them. Christopher Hitchens
“ I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince… Shannon Lucid
“ As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics. Hillary Clinton
