No Words Quotes

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

I wonder what language truck drivers are using now that everyone is using theirs?

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.

Speech is civilization itself. The word even the most contradictory word preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Like stones words are laborious and unforgiving and the fitting of them together like the fitting of stones demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.

The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.

Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication.

"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

His words were softer than oil yet they were drawn swords.

Language is an inventory of human experience.

Change is legitimate and inevitable for our language is a mighty river picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there but growing ever wider and richer.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.

Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

I have those dreams that you can't put into words.

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Words may be false and full of art Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.