Quotes About Words

The articulation of the other's body in words turns it into a map of possible pleasure, effectively distancing that body by transforming it into an erotic object.

Stephen's face lost its tension, and I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

Through a story that delineates the power of words to obfuscate, exploit, and distort human reality, Henry James offers his own nuanced, precise, and sensitive prose in opposition to the dead phrases that stream from lecture halls, line the pages of newspapers, and float from one speaker to another in that arid climate that was Boston.

Language, after all, is impersonal and personal, particular and general, both inside us and outside us, and James writes with a profound awareness of this fact. Words are where the public and private intersect.

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

Faith is professed with the lips and with the heart, through words & through love.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

If you love language, it will love you back.

Talk is cheep. Love is priceless.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

Writing is a great love of mine.

If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.

I love language as I love life itself!

And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, "I love you

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

Only With words and people and love you move at ease.

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

Words can crush things that are unseen.