#words

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. ↗

— David Sedaris

#language #words #gender

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#dirty-words #censorship

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#organized-chaos #power-of-words #writing #chaos

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#honesty #oscar-wilde #words #writing #honesty

Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#verbiage #words #love

Love really is revolting. it's even worse than you're moulting ↗

— Lago

#love

It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it". ↗

— Anne Tyler

#marriage

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#reading #understanding #wicked #words #change

When words fail music speaks. ↗

— Irena Huang

#power-of-music #words #music

Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity; wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. ↗

— Ian Caldwell y Dustin Thomason

#nature