I think it’s good to have switched to a much more visual world and that people are not all that interested in words. – Jerry Della Femina
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite. – Craig Brown
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn’t teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading – it wasn’t just a blank page, laying down words. – Anthony Doerr
My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn’t remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to ’em in a minute. – Barry McGuire
The words that I’m most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that’s the same with music, really. If you’re doing an album, there’s ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times – it’s difficult. – Bernard Sumner
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. – Alfred Korzybski
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can’t worry about that. – Bill Parcells
I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. – Jane Goodall
When I think about the books I’ve written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature. – Brad Feld
Two words guided the making of ‘Babel’ for me: ‘dignity’ and ‘compassion.’ These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‘What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.’ – Joseph Addison
I feel like there’s already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you’re in, like words floating by. It’s something that I didn’t start thinking about until recently, but you can hitch that ride, that narrative that’s already been created. You just have to read it and write it down. – Bill Callahan
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right. – John Lydon
In ‘A Royal Affair’ I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It’s so much different to act in another language. It’s the nuances in the words. – Alicia Vikander
I don’t quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them. – Idina Menzel
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man’s thinking or his writing. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? – Buddha
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. – Adlai E. Stevenson
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. – Jules Renard
When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic – or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols – what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways? – Christina Baker Kline
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. – Alfred Korzybski
I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don’t see any harm in experimenting with the language. Only poor editing standards need to be improved. – Ashwin Sanghi
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they’re translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I’m going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original. – Conor Oberst
