How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.
English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.
On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an excellent thing. In other words, it is the community that matters.
Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
My rule of thumb is to always do what's on the page first. Then you can talk to your director about playing with it. Improv frees me up in a character, but I would be mortified if the writers who agonized over their words assumed I thought my improv was more valuable.
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.
Some people be game-goofy and words don't sound right coming out of their mouthpiece. But whenever E-40 says something it's just solidified.
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.
