#words

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#convey #dictionaries #dictionary #english #english language

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#ago #bicycle #bought #down #dress

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. ↗

— John Barrymore

#too #wife #words

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#desire #fingers #had #i #instead

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. ↗

— George Berkeley

#divested #easily #how #i #i can

Words build bridges into unexplored regions. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#build #into #regions #unexplored #words

Painters must speak through paint, not through words. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#paint #painters #speak #through #words

Words are but the signs of ideas. ↗