Education Quote by Amy Tan

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke…

— Peter Watts

“As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the…

— Joan Didion

“Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try…

— Jane Austen

“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.”

— John Green

“She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.”

— Hannah Kent

“He knew enough of their language to understand her words. But speaking”

— Mark Wayne McGinnis

“... for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt…

— Mervin Miller

“The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing.”

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“All measure, and all language, I should pass, Should I tell what a miracle she was.”

— John Donne