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The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'. — Philip Wollen

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

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. — John Hume

The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host. — William S. Burroughs

Why, Noah, do you know the word for vagina in every language?"
"Because I'm European, and therefore more cultured than you. — Michelle Hodkin

I liked to watch anime in the original Japanese even though I couldn't speak a single word of the language. — S.M. Reine

Happiness is the most tired word in any language. — Erol Ozan

Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings. — Ernest Cline

I cringed at the stupid 'b' word. Really, the English language is kind of limited in that department. — C.M. Stunich

In the Old Peculiar language, the word ymbryne (pronounced imm-brinn) means "revolution" or "circuit. — Ransom Riggs

I pointed at Ascanio. Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn't mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor. — Ilona Andrews

I really want to adopt a child ... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language. — Patti Stanger

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. — Rebecca Solnit

Regret; The saddest word in the English language. — Tonya Hurley

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper. — Terry Tempest Williams

Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same. — Marty Rubin

(optimisme itself was a word that first entered the French language in the eighteenth century). — Kenan Malik

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. — Emile M. Cioran

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. — Timothy Noah

We have no word for "Nation" in our language. — Shashi Tharoor

The meaning of a word is its use in the language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." — Charles Spurgeon

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Next to 'God', 'love' is the word most mangled in every language. — Richard Bach

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language. — Terry Jones

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art' ... For Indians, everything is art ... therefore needs no name. — Jamake Highwater

Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language. — Caitlin Thomas

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. — Portia De Rossi

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor. — Thomas Carlyle

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. — Criss Jami

It seems to me like a failure of language that experience fits into a regular sentence made up of ordinary words. It fits into one word. "Experience. — Ann Brashares

Love is the most important word in the English language
and the most confusing. — Gary Chapman

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

Hey," Pavlicek held on, "what's the most bullshit word in the English language." "Closure." "Give that man a cigar," Pavlicek said, then hung up. — Harry Brandt

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. — Richard M. Nixon

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces. — Richard Brookhiser

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word — Frank Bough

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is no other word in the English language more life-changing than Hello — Patrick Stevens

In every language in the universe, the strongest word is truth! — Susan Waterwyk

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper. — Harold Holzer

The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language. — Star Trek The Next Generation

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity." — Harry Bridges

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things. — Rob Brezsny

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists. — Jorge Luis Borges

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word! — Lewis Carroll

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form. — Jim Rowe

God uses language to create and command us. — Eugene H. Peterson

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language. — Ernest Hemingway,

Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;
While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation. — Kelley Armstrong

The English alphabet is pure insanity ... , It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty. — Mark Twain

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language. — Charles Dickens

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language. — Sally Potter

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

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God. — A.W. Tozer

Love is the only language that everyone understands without any word or interpretation. — Debasish Mridha

The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically:
Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean. — Blaise Cendrars

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In the simplest language, spoken without a single word between out two bodies. — Cara McKenna

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word. — Michel Serres

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma. — Larry Wall

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be. — Suzanne Vega

[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man. — Will Durant

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. — Kevin Kline

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.' — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny. — A.A. Milne

Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb. — David Malouf

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. — Elias Canetti

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion. — Kenneth Goldsmith

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

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it. — Shannon Hale

But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. — Wislawa Szymborska

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language. — Ed Markey

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears. — Frank Herbert

There is no word in any traditional European language which does not either denigrate or patronize the urban poor it is naming. That is power. — John Berger

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language. — Theodore Roosevelt

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Even English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success. — Kshitij Shringi

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

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. — Charles Baudelaire

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee — Harold Holzer

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Toxemia. A word that starts so harsh and ends so gently. — Emma Hooper

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me. — Jeff Lindsay

It is impossible to disassociate language from science ... To call forth a concept, a word is needed. — Antoine Lavoisier

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. — Franz Kafka

In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream." — Michael Glawogger

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child. — Doug Stanhope

Hay una estrella mas abierta
que la palabra 'amapola'?
Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy? — Pablo Neruda

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. — Anais Nin

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts. — Sol Stein

"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home." — Chauncey Depew

Equestrian, by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians. — Lewis Black

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there. — Andrew Solomon