Quotes About Words

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of enjoyment people shouldn't miss them, and I got every word of his that I could, and I could see by hard argument there was only the one way for it.

If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.

Obviously, people give me their opinions of Dwane Casey and everything has been nothing but positive words about him - just the way he coaches, the way he is as a human being. From what I've heard, he's a stand-up guy.

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Language cares.

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Everything that we say has consequences. I mean, words matter.

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series of micromemories from your own experience that inmix, join, and connect in your mind in an order the writer controls, so that, in effect, you have a sustained memory of something that never happened to you.

If Trump's own words didn't convince you what a loathsome person he is, certainly nothing that I say or do will sway you.