Quotes About Words

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

I'm a vocabulary nerd.

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

The Well taught us how to create a civilized space for debate, speak in our own voices, use our real names, mediate flame wars, and boot trolls. Brand's mantra was, 'You own your own words,' meaning you have the right to say your piece but must also take responsibility for what you say.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills.

News outlets use words like erratic, volatile, unstable but rarely are Trump's words and actions covered as a whole and rarely do news outlets take it to that next level.

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.'

I feel that when you connect something that you do, especially serving food, and connect that together with words - I think it's very important.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

My family thought - and thinks - very seriously about words. About language and what it means and how it shapes us and how it should shape us and change us.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism:

I have always had a horror of words that are not translated into deeds, of speech that does not result in action," Roosevelt recalled. "I believe in realizable ideals and in realizing them, in preaching what can be practiced and then in practicing it.

Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.