Language Quotes

"Laughter is the language of the soul." "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it" "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic" "Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds." "Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question." "My name can't be that tough to pronounce" "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man." "Words are like leaves and where they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found" "To define is to limit." "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar." "To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words" "To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery" "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "Philosophy is common sense with big words." "Human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light" "The pen is the tongue of the mind" "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." "To speak a true word is to transform the world"