Abstract Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and…

— DJ Spooky

For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential…

— Virginia Postrel

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

— Jasper Fforde

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the…

— Marshall McLuhan

The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is…

— Jack Goody

“Words exist. What are they made of? Air under pressure? Ink? Some instances of the word "cat" are made of ink, and some are…

— Daniel C. Dennett

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words

— Charlotte Rampling

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then…

— Joseph Joubert

“Why the words are called the way they are? Why certain sounds represent certain words, with their own meaning?”

— Kimberly Loskov

In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void

— Dylan Thomas

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

— John Oliver

The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)…

— Marshall McLuhan