I didn't ask anything—I hadn't the words. Instead I spoke…

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are…

— Simon McBurney

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

— D. H. Lawrence

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

— Blaise Pascal

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of…

— William Cobbett

“He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.”

— Rachel Joyce

“this library is another desert. A wasteland of words instead of sand.”

— Stephen R. Donaldson

You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words.

— Raghib Clitso

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into…

— Anton Webern

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

— Samuel Barnett

“I only have two words to say More or Less”

— TimBur

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.…

— Paul Simon

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean…

— John Searle

Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez