It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the...

kisses… areand always will be the only language that I will have ever truly known.

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn’t just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you’ve got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren’t...

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

It’s not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind the equivalent of putting an adjective to a noun, and saw, not only...

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures – it is the designer’s job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

… a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue…

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don’t really mean nothing.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

What was a little dark, anyway? Just no sun, [Petra] reminded herself as her sneakers pounded toward the opening. Just dark, all three fine, she whispered to herself again and again, spinning the words outward...

Words have consequences.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

The music is the main thing and it’s just as easy to write acceptable words.

I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for...

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I’d hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn’t even know it.

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such...

Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda”[modern: Minä tahdon kernaasti puhua suomen kieltä, [mutta] en minä taida](“I willingly want to speak Finnish, [but] I am not able”)(found in a German travel journal c.1450)

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed...

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression...

Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.

You make me so happy I could frown. Let us dance like two rocking chairs at a KISS concert, and let us kiss like two people named Sam Asmas who’ve just discovered the meaning of...

As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but...

She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in...

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

I didn’t understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.

I’ll bet I could find some hurtful words in a pile of sticks and stones. Something like an insincere and deceptive “I love you.

The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On...

Remember to say what you mean, but don’t say it meanly.

With math, I remember all of the words—and none of the numbers. I’m also like that with love.

The sound of the words as they’re said is always different from the sound they make when they’re heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

You don’t realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when...

There are no words to express this. Everybody says there’s nothing they can do. This is outrageous.

You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words.

Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

I used to write my books at night when I was a freelancer with no children. I used to really work in huge spurts – I could turn around a revision in two weeks, I...

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after. Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney,...

Six Stars,’ he exclaimed. ‘Finding the right words is hard!

silence between two words is an endless road.

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.