Language Quotes

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows" "A word to the wise is infuriating" "A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow" "Music is the shorthand of emotion." "I have only one language, yet it is not mine" "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." "Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes." "Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation" "We commit ourselves to language and community at the same time" "The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if we cannot understand them" "The most important thing for me is to work on language" "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "The tongue is mightier than the blade" "I like good strong words that mean something." "Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools." "I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to y'all" "They can never understand me, I got my own language" "A word is dead when it is said, some say I say it just begins to live that day " "Macrology may smell of artifice, but brevity may also cloak falsification." "Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts."