It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.
Jules Verne
I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would... →
Justin Vernon
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of... →
Giambattista Vico
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by... →
Gore Vidal
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's... →
Alicia Vikander
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Leonardo da Vinci
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
Bill Viola
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is... →
Vitruvius
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
Don Van Vliet