Language Quotes

"When ideas fail, words come in handy" "When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain." "Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas." "Words are the money of fools" "A man without words is a man without thought" "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"