Language Quote by Anna Quindlen

“Words never mean anything. Look beneath them.”

— Dot Hutchison

“so little of what anything means comes through words.”

— Andre Alexis

“Better to know a little, I figure, than nothing at all.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.”

— Valeria Luiselli

“You never know what they mean until you hear what they don't say.”

— James Church

“Nothing, not even dictionaries, can tell you what anything means," he said. "The reality of things is just sad, for the most part.”

— Tom Rachman

“It’s just words and words mean nothing. Only action does.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we knew it…

— Ayn Rand

“Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I know what words do, he thinks. They let us feel less. “No,”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“There's things, times. When, well, you don't know what to say. You know?”

— Neil Gaiman

“It's like he knows everything. And I don't have to say a word.”

— Hannah Harrington