I had a bunch of people who kinda looked out for me. You know, gave me the words of wisdom.

I've asked every grammar schoolteacher in the nation to have their students write on the meaning of the Statue of Liberty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the winning kid got up to the microphone and, in...

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the...

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and...

I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's...

I came from a world where when you say something, you understand that your words have weight, and you say things that you truly believe.

As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

When public leaders turn public debates into words of war - 'enemies' 'go to hell' 'attack' - they are enabling the edgiest of their followers to take things into their hands, and unfortunately, some...

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your favorite band and yelling out your favorite songs and to say the words along with...

The two words that come to me when thinking of Mahomes: instinct and intuition. He has both in abundance.

Regarding my attire, I choose whatever I feel is most flattering at the time. That can be jeans dressed up to a nice dinner or a dress at home for a casual night. In other words, thin days and chubby...

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his...

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and...

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But...

Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a person's entire day with just a few measly...

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

Letter writing is a truly anachronistic genre, a sort of tardy inheritance of the eighteenth century; those who lived at that time believed in the pure truth of the written word. And we? Times have...

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the...

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

A word is deadWhen it is said,Some say. I say it justBegins to liveThat day.

Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting...