Language Words Quotes
In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.
I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.Kids just have an easier time with words.
They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
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.
Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.
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.
Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
Hello" and "good-bye" were a pair of bookends, propping up a vast library of blank volumes, void almanacs, novels full of sentiment I couldn't apprehend
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?
Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.
... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.
I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.
The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.
