Language Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante Download Open image “For me, words are just words, nothing else” — Guillermo Cabrera Infante ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I know words are words. They can mean the world to you or they can be all talk and no walk. — DaniAlla Copy Share Image
I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
