The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.