For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people.… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
The Food Stamp Challenge, which challenges higher-income families to live as if they are on food stamps, estimates that a person on… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Biggie, I had a chance to be in the studio with him. I was little so I didn't really understand much but… — Quincy Brown Copy Share Image
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The endings to me are the key moment in 'Weekend' and '45 Years.' I know how I want my gut to feel… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
“I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Since Death brushed past me once more to-day, Let me say quickly what I must say: Take without shame the love I… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
“Every spell is something special, fit for the moment when it's done." Edmund pushed his bowl across to Tom. "It's not just… — Matthew Jobin Copy Share Image
“We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please... We want books that cost… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
“Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext,… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object,… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton... and at the same… — Megan Hilty Copy Share Image
Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those… — Juan Gelman Copy Share Image
Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Just as Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin started by going after the intellectuals, against those whose words who might form an opposition… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
With James Brown, I just learn the lyrics and then get out there and get funky with it and let my spirit… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these… — Molière Copy Share Image
“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn’t say it. This… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too… — Ro James Copy Share Image
The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“What did you do in your songs? I don’t know, I’ll never know, you say. Someone else will write them about me,… — Alice Notley Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
What's true will never contradict what's true. Article 2 of the Belgic Confession, based on Psalm 19, Romans 1, and several other… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
“A strange thing happens when one speaks aloud: words take on their own meaning. They move in through the listener's ears and… — K. Arsenault Rivera Copy Share Image
“What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Some people believe other people don't deserve to be in AEW, other people do believe they deserve to be in AEW, so… — Eddie Kingston Copy Share Image
'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“The children are in love but do not know with what. They talk in gibberish, muse themselves into an indefinable pallor, and… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
