The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Actions lie louder than words.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

I put the words down and push them a bit.