Essentials Quote by Bertrand Russell

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

— Edward J. Fraughton

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

— Aristotle

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

— Timothy Noah

Words are just words that spit out of a persons mouth unless they give them definition by showing actions that give the same meaning.

— Megan

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work…

— Henry David Thoreau

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and…

— Edward Hirsch

I know words are words. They can mean the world to you or they can be all talk and no walk.

— DaniAlla

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the…

— Frederick Buechner

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at…

— Anonymous

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can…

— Shannon Hale

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but…

— Patrick Rothfuss

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky