Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

The only film I’ve enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in ‚The Wrestler.‘

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.