Quotes about Language
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
— Samuel Johnson
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
— John Updike
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
— Nikki Giovanni
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why then we should drop into poetry.
— Charles Dickens
Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.
— Jonathan Krohn
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
— Maya Angelou
Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.
— John Maxwell
I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
— Philip K. Dick
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
— Will Rogers