Language Quote by George du Maurier

“People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying…

— Bill Bryson

“It's the sound of my breathing that gets me, pouring down into my lungs and then tripping back up my throat.”

— Markus Zusak

“Better thinking out loud than suffocating from frustration. ("The upper lip must never tremble" )”

— Erik Pevernagie

“The difficulty is that I have no mouth through which I can speak. I can’t make myself understood, not in your world, the world…

— Margaret Atwood

“No matter how good you are with words, it’s inevitable that meaning is lost between your mind and someone else’s. Trying to communicate is…

— Jacqueline Novak

“How do we do this - speak with our bodies even as we swallow our voices?”

— Sharanya Manivannan

“The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.”

— Megan Shepherd

“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

“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.”

— Sierra DeMulder

“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,…

— Ali Smith

“I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a…

— Yann Martel

“Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor.” I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was…

— Christina Lee