History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

I live by good soup, and not on fine language.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Words pay no debts.