Quotes About Language

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy [Barack] Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.

As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.

Words have power. Speak positively and positive things will happen to you. Speak negatively and negative things will happen to you. Choose positive words.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Words physically have power to bring things into existence.

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

There is power in words. What you say is what you get.

We must yield to the power of words. Even God has chosen words to communicate with his creatures like us

Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

Words are the bricks of our world and they have the power to change it.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

Words, ' he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

Mira Grant, Blackout