Quotes About Words

Some of these words deserve to be better known. Take velleity, which describes a mild desire, a wish or urge too slight to lead to action. Doesn't that seem a useful term? Or how about sluibbergegullion, a seventeenth-century word signifying a worthless or slovenly fellow? Or ugsome, a late medieval word meaning loathsome or disgusting.

Or ugsome, a late medieval word meaning loathsome or disgusting? It has lasted half a millennium in English, was a common synonym for horrid until well into the last century, and can still be found tucked away forgotten at the back of most unabridged dictionaries. Isn't it a shame to let it slip away?

But perhaps nothing speaks more clearly for the absurdities of English pronunciation than that the word for the study of pronunciation in English, orthoepy, can itself be pronounced two ways.

Verbing weirds language.

I was beginning to learn that my responsibility of being a representative of Jesus Christ would not allow me to do anything that would dishonour His Name. And He was also teaching me that one's actions spoke louder than words when it came to witnessing for Christ.

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

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

It is only by examining a book that we can ascertain what words it contains.

People get distracted by worries and sadness, and have to struggle to see anything else. They have to work hard to hold on to beauty, to hold fast to dreams and words

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

I thought I had seen a face like Sun Pie's before but couldn't remember just where. He had an unusual way of talking…slow but with slam bang action words.

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I've fixed my feelings into durable words when they could have been spent on tenderness

Ce n'est pas une explication. Je n'ai pas d'explication à donner. D'ailleurs, on n'explique rien avec des mots.

Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.

Littera Scripta Manet

A death in the family will teach you that people are capable of saying the damnedest things.

The gypsies may not have known the language, but there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the words were spoken.

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

Sözcükler, tek baÅŸlar?na insan? k?rmaz oysa. Yaralayan bunun arkas?na saklanan ikiyüzlülüktür.

Lo que dices importa, y la manera en que lo dices también.

The hardest thing about writing is knowing what to write.

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.

Jax Cassidy is delightful! Her lush, lyrical way with words will draw you in and keep you turning the pages.