Quotes 261 till 280 of 598.
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
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Last words are only words.
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Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
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Like a beautiful flower full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
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Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.
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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016 -
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
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Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
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Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots.Primer Lessons (1922) -
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
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