The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

The journey is over. Love to all.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.