Quotes About Language

knowing which words work on which kinds of people.

It does not take money to make money. It takes words. The difference between a rich person and a poor person is the person's vocabulary.

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

Well, anyway, when I am grown up," said Anne decidedly, "I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one's feelings.

She said that everything had colour in her thought; the months of the year ran through all the tints of the spectrum, the days of the week were arrayed as Solomon in his glory, morning was golden, noon orange, evening crystal blue, and night violet. Every idea came to her mind robed in its own especial hue. Perhaps that was why her voice and words had such a charm, conveying to the listeners' perception such fine shadings of meaning and tint and music.

I am teaching Perry grammar. He says he wants to learn to speak properly. I told him he should not call his Aunt Tom an old beast but he said he had to because she wasn't a young beast.

Making a--new--excuse me. Did you say language? Yes. What's the matter with English? Isn't it good enough for you, you incomprehensible little being?

Wilson has some fancy name for it, but I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call shallamagouslem.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them

Prose, rightly written and read, is sometimes as beautiful as poetry.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

You talk in the language of the violets.

Oh, I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums. It makes them seem more like people. How do you know but that it hurts a geranium's feelings just to be called a geranium and nothing else? You wouldn't like to be called nothing but a woman all the time.

Pero si una tiene ideas grandes, necesita palabras largas para expresarlas, ¿no cree?

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

It was nearly as long as a minister's and so poetical.

Ama eÄŸer büyük fikirleriniz varsa onlar? ifade edebilmek için büyük kelimeler kullanman?z gerekir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Words aren't made — they grow," said Anne.