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I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. — Jane Goodall

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts. — Marianne Wiggins

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords. — Dean F. Wilson

What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words. — Ursula Dubosarsky

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money. — Eduardo Galeano

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing. — John Dunne

Lonely is when the language outside
isn't the language inside
and words are made of just 26 letters — Holly Thompson

Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many. — T.F. Hodge

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — William Shakespeare

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes. — Helmut Newton

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. — Virginia Woolf

It's a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now words don't seem as necessary — Gayle Forman

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. — Frank McCourt

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life. — Rene Magritte

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. — Alasdair Gray

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German. — Clarence Nash

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life. — Joy Kogawa

I love you. ... they are the three most abused and underused words in the English language. — Andrea Boeshaar

The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human. — Megan Shepherd

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words ... Be not the slave of Words ... — Thomas Carlyle

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain, — Lisa Gerrard

Body language speaks much more succinctly and honestly than mere spoken words. — Dixie Waters

You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. — Mary Norris

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories. — John Green

My first language is French. I just love words so much, and in French it feels like I can say whatever I want however I want. — Xavier Dolan

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. — Alan Rickman

Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises. — Anne Sexton

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them. — Jack London

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies. — Dean Koontz

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. — Wilkie Collins

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it. — Lenore Kandel

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become
and such lucidity is a form of joy. — Eva Hoffman

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. — Malcolm De Chazal

People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World — Paulo Coelho

The language of a smile is charming, mesmerizing, meaningful, and often mysterious, but everyone understands a smile better than words. — Debasish Mridha

Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat. — Elizabeth Winder

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. — Catharine A. MacKinnon

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know. — Don Watson

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. — Walter Lippmann

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. — Katherine Dunn

I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain. — Joshua Kryah

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us. — Eugene H. Peterson

I'll leave the way of words to walk the wood I'll be the forest's man, and greet the sun, And feel the silence blossom on my tongue like language. — Neil Gaiman

A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. — Jeanette Winterson

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. — Jonathan Swift

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home. — Martin Heidegger

The world is so big and words are so small! — Marty Rubin

She looks like there are no words inside her at all, like language has taken a vacation from her life and left her alone. — Meredith Miller

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. — Thomas Shadwell

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. — James Joyce

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words. — Karl Kraus

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. — John Langdon

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; — Aldous Huxley

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice. — T. S. Eliot

Words are incomplete and yet we need them. They are the cups that give our memories shape, and keep them from trickling away. — Carolina De Robertis

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words. — Robert Barry

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language — Mary Balogh

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand. — Lisa Kleypas

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic. — Dennis Lehane

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire. — Hafez

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important. — Chelsea Clinton

kisses... are
and always will be

the only language

that I will have
ever truly known. — Sanober Khan

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character. — Cirilo F. Bautista

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. — Leonard Mlodinow

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart — Stephen R. Lawhead

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. — Winston S. Churchill

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates

How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you. — Thomas S. Monson

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. — Erma Bombeck

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. — Wilson Follett

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. — Gwendolyn Brooks

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. — Miguel De Cervantes

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world. — Carrie Fisher

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. — Aldous Huxley

If my words fail, let my eyes and my heart be my language. — Mirtha Michelle

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished. — Confucius

It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read. — Jesse Kellerman

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language! — Keith Urban

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. — Keith Richards

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child. — Jodi Picoult

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. — Daniel Dennett

When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates. — Akshay Vasu

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce. — Mary Norris

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow. — Lev S. Vygotsky

Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason. — Arthur Schopenhauer

[T]here are not many words in the English language more lacklustre and less sexy than 'employer'. — Roberta Pearce

The only substance that goes in and never leaves, are words — Natasha Tsakos

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. — Ben Jonson

Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related. — Monique Truong

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. — William Penn

It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness. — Hermann Hesse

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves. — Piet Mondrian

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words! — Stephen Sondheim

Words, too, have genuine substance
mass and weight and specific gravity. — Tim O'Brien