Quotes
Quotes about Word
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman apart from ordinary humanity, and in the working world that is not a help, as women have discovered in many bitter ways.
Maka le wakanâthe land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have sunk to the level of the demons.
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Words are loaded pistols.
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
