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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

James Schuyler

Artist

First

Words

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Marilyn vos Savant

Grammar

Words

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

Marilyn vos Savant

Meaning

Words

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Ferdinand de Saussure

First

Speech

Words

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Memory

Speech

Words

Words are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Words

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Words

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

May Sarton