Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.
Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.