Airy Quote by John Milton

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On…

— John Milton

Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.

— Jan Potocki

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the…

— Salman Rushdie

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason…

— Lucretius

“As the chant grew in volume she began to be conscious of the terrible potency of language, the sense that a name spoken is…

— Jan Siegel

...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from…

— Jose Saramago

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

— Roy H. Williams

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn,…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

— Blaise Pascal

“These letters and words, when placed in the right order, would conjure all manner of exotic beasts and people from the shadows, would reveal…

— Neil Gaiman