#words

I think that's the great thing about music: It can communicate emotionally. And you don't have to necessarily get all of the words. I mean you have to know what is being said, but didn't you find even if you didn't get all of the words, you certainly get the emotion? ↗

— Ronny Cox

#being #certainly #communicate #emotion #emotionally

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#am #i #i am #i can #known

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#common #confers #currency #drawn #exchange

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. ↗

— Bette Davis

#cannot #credulity #days #everybody #excuse

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning. ↗

— John W. Dawson

#areas #identical #languages #meaning #multitudes

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#control #manipulation #meaning #meaning of #must

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#actually #becomes #choosing #close #experience

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#really #sound #voices #words

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#humble #later #let us #lose #magnitude

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

— Alexandre Dumas

#human #human wisdom #summed #two #up