Being Quote by Simon McBurney

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It seems that words get chalked off as something the person said, but isn't that what words are to begin with.

— Gayla Leach

Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as…

— Ray Stannard Baker

People find a way in which they can say something.

— T. S. Eliot

In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people…

— Christopher Guest

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps.

— Phil LaMarr

“Why writers stumble over words when talking? Because we have so much to say, our mouths can't keep up with our brains.”

— Ksenia Anske

To me, playing with words is like playing with your food. You shouldn't do it.

— Michael Penn

“The words on the screen are usually a distraction to the audience. If you’re reading the words, by the time you’ve gotten around to…

— Peter Coughter

“What we're doing, or, I should say, what you're doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes into people's…

— Max Barry

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

— Matthea Harvey

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

— Orson Scott Card