513 quotes found
“A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.”
“'When I use a word ' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is ' said Alice 'whether you can make words mean ...”
“The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.”
“A single word often betrays a great design.”
“Words once spoken can never be recalled.”
“Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.”
“It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important.”
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.”
“Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.”
“There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.”
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
“More than kisses letters mingle souls.”
“I wonder what language truck drivers are using now that everyone is using theirs?”
“The Englishman loves to roll his tongue around the word 'extraordinary'. It so pleases him that he is reluctant to finish the sound which goes on into harmonics and overtones. The North American p...”
“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.”
“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”
“I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.”
“When deeds speak, words are nothing.”
“I have those dreams that you can't put into words.”
