Quotes About Words

O que eu gostava de poder encher os livros de silêncio, e tender cada vez mais de silêncio, e que as palavras estivessem carregadas de silêncio de maneira a que o leitor as pudesse encher como quisesse.

Our perceptions and the ideas they evoke continuously generate a parallel description in terms of language. That description is also constructed with images. All the words we use, in any language, spoken, written, or appreciated by touch, as in Braille, are made of mental images. This is true of the auditory images of the sounds of letters and words and inflections and of the corresponding visual symbol/letter codings that stand for those sounds.

Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

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.

Recall those lovely words of Buddha when he said, "Monks and scholars must not accept my words out of respect, but must analyze them the way a goldsmith analyzes gold—by cutting, scraping, rubbing, melting.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones,' Rex [Browning] says, 'and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

So many words! It would take seven lifetimes to learn them all.

to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else.

El aire es una biblioteca y registro de todas las vidas vividas, de todas las frases dichas, de todas las palabras que aún reverberan

But he is learning. It is as if he is learning all over again how to put the world into words. A tree is an open hand shaken twice by your right ear; whale is three fingers dipped through a sea made by the opposite forearm. The sky is two hands touched above the head, then swept apart, as though a rift has formed in the clouds and you are swimming through them, into heaven.

The music of the poem lends meaning to the words, and the meaning of the words lends music to the poem.

He also made the technical point that the adoption was not yet official

He used language as a place for us to hide.

I'm surrounded by silence but at the same time I'm drowning in words and it hardly ever leaves me, that sense of disconnection.

A novel is a container for 80,000 to 90,000 words and you might see it as a jelly mould. You pour them all in and hope they'll set.

I never believe everything anyone says.' 'Including me?' He smiled. 'Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?

Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore it.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

Publishing is not my world.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Puns are a form of humor with words.