Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey
I can write music but I'm not much for words.
Jim Diamond
Songs are life in 80 words or less.
Neil Diamond
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes... →
When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?
Guillermo Diaz
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina... →
Junot Diaz
I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we... →
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... →
Philip K. Dick
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens
I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing... →
Eric Jerome Dickey