Language Quotes

The alchemy of life is to turn coins into cents, by making sense of change.

...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.

The Art of Writing for Children is the knowledge of what is significant to them

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

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

There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.

Language is life and a true backbone of any society!

Because of language, the thoughts we record today might reach into the future to influence the thinking of people not yet born.

It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.

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

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.

Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.

He loved words, and he would admit that he was playing with them all the time. He was obsessive about the rhythm of the sentence, and would add a word, subtract a word. [about Truman Capote]

I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.

I want all the books on the she

…the great thing about literature is that you can imagine

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.

A boy trying out a man's language.

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other

They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

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

The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")

The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squi

She didn't know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save, spend and all the time George with his own counter had found her a way out.

The species greatest harvest ― words.

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that there’s no point in trying.

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

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.

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

Words were stories in themselves.

Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

You see, I’m a juggler with words myself.

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

An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.

Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It's getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean.

Alphabet soup is my magic eight ball. Served hot or cold, words are delicious.

ahthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell.""It sounds evil.""It is, " I answered, and we parted.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

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.

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

The world is so big and words are so small!

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