Language Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

“He repeated the words dutifully, and then put together his very first sentence in elegant King's English. "Cut...fuck...Bil-lee.”

— Mark Wildyr

“On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.”

— Shelby Foote

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“To him, in whose throat the bone of displacement was forever stuck, it was wrong to talk about nothing when there was a perpetual…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“More and more, I felt that I was meeting people like Lee who didn't at all seem part of this modern world and this…

— Susan Orlean

“And it was like the longer he talked, the more words he used, the less they came to mean anything. It was an endless…

— Alexandra Bracken

“There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" murmured…

— Frances Hardinge

“I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted…

— Agatha Christie

“When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.”

— Anonymous