Quotes about Language

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Wilson has some fancy name for it, but I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call shallamagouslem.

Prose, rightly written and read, is sometimes as beautiful as poetry.

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

Ama eÄŸer büyük fikirleriniz varsa onlar? ifade edebilmek için büyük kelimeler kullanman?z gerekir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

Words aren't made — they grow," said Anne.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful and the expressible ignores a vast realm of human experience, and is refuted by our sense of the ineffable which is an awareness of an allusiveness to meaning without the ability to express it.

The self-control of passion, the reshaping of his image of the world, the elimination of the sense of merit, the change of language, the effect of his profession on the structure of his life, all hint at the depth of this crisis.

To employ words is not the same as to understand what they mean. Moreover, the relation between words and their meanings is elastic. Words remain, while meanings are subject to change.

The act of revelation is a mystery, while the record of revelation is a literary fact, phrased in the language of man.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.