Execution Quote by Ben Shahn

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

— Richard Dawkins

Words are trivial

— Depeche Mode

No - simple to pronounce, hard to say.

— Melody Beattie

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public…

— John Ralston Saul

The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.

— Anonymous

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

— Philip Levine

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound

— Emily Dickinson

“It’s often thought that the only function of pronunciation is to facilitate intelligibility; but it is also there to express personal or group identity.”

— David Crystal

When each word is read, would you know the difference if nothing was said?

— Kansas

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

— Anonymous