I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.
The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.
If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.
Like stones words are laborious and unforgiving and the fitting of them together like the fitting of stones demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.
Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.
'When I use a word ' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is ' said Alice 'whether you can make words mean so...
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Trust is a thing you know without words.
At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered.
Words can't save you, but they can give you courage.
Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.
In the sky, far above - Where my words - Written in the Clouds; I've borrowed from the sun, A gentle smile.
If your eyes could speak, what would they say?
The world is so big and words are so small!
The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if he does not know it, the clothing for the thoughts to which he gives birth.
Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.
It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time...when I knew words would be my life's work