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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
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy.
— Sarah Vowell
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
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
There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
— Margaret Wise Brown
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
— Clarence Nash
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
And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
— John Hookham Frere
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
If my words fail, let my eyes and my heart be my language.
— Mirtha Michelle
The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language.
— Jeanette Winterson
When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.
— Akshay Vasu
Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.
— Lord Chesterfield
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
— Walter Lippmann
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
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
— Aleister Crowley
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
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
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
— Daniel Dennett
The only substance that goes in and never leaves, are words
— Natasha Tsakos
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
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
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
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.
— Robert Herrick
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
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
— Alan Rickman
There are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.
— Lanier Ivester
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
Progressives' don't just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.
— Kathy Shaidle
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
One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words
— William, Saroyan
I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.
— William Giraldi
Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.
— Elena Ferrante
... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.
— Cirilo F. Bautista
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
— Leonard Mlodinow
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
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
Everything has an older meaning. All words have their secrets. Spells and gods are buried in the thicket of language.
— Shannon Phillips
Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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
AhthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell.""It sounds evil."
"It is," I answered, and we parted. — Gail Carson Levine
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
We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.
— Piet Mondrian
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
— Aldous Huxley
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
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[T]here are not many words in the English language more lacklustre and less sexy than 'employer'.
— Roberta Pearce
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
— J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.
Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
— Ben Jonson
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
— Aldous Huxley
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
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
It was fortunate that love did not need words; or else it would be full of misunderstanding and foolishness.
— Hermann Hesse
I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
— Annie Proulx
Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.
— Sam Owen
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
— Stephen Sondheim
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
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
