Quotes About Language

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.

I love the English language. Words have power.

I am happy that I could contribute my bit and enable the use of colloquial Telugu words in mainstream films and literature.

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest... If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

My words are my bullets.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything needs to be hyped to get noticed. It means that some of our greatest words are losing their power.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Words are loaded pistols.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.