We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using wo...
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.
The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
To me the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe comfortable middle-of-the road policy. Above all our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or eve...
Look into words for the tomb of spacewhere beauties & stones & eternities untangle.(...)In them is the flood which bothers the seaand the songs which need no music.Say these words that evolve into sil...
In the sky, far above - Where my words - Written in the Clouds; I've borrowed from the sun, A gentle smile.
Words can be bridges.
Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of lov...
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.
Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.
You do not need words to tell the truth.
Each step I take is one I can never get back each thing I do is forever in history each word a person say is forever imprinted in one's memory so be careful of your words or action. For it maybe your...
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason...
Words are air currents. You can float or go where every you want if you master the currents