Language Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“I’ve always thought it absurd for words to be added to music because I think music is a language, perhaps not a more precise…

— Fernando Sorrentino

“Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at…

— Rosie O'Donnell

“But a word once spoken who can recapture it?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...”

— Anna Quindlen

“Words are like shards of glass. By themselves they're worthless; however, when placed together in just the right way, they can become great works…

— Leigh M. Lane

“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do, as having…

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

“Even your misstatement makes language play harmoniously within our ears to initiate a melody of newness.”

— Sarah Chergui

“Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.”

— John Green

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

— Vivek Shanbhag