#words

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#communicate #companion #concentrate #could #english

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words. ↗

— William Safire

#bloggers #bottom #confined #down #engaged

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#alive #analysis #becomes #beloved #calm

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#came #certainly #chicago #cleared #come

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#because #been #doctor #giving #had

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

— Thomas Shadwell

#false #full #heart #language #may

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fire #go #kindle #quench #seek

Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#heaven #never #thoughts #without #words

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#deeds #doing #good #good deed #kind

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words. ↗

— Shakira

#before #care #conscious #fact #feel