Language Quotes

"We're fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them." "Language is the dress of thought" "I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language." "Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'." "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." "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"