English language Quote by Jack London

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

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

— Mark Wayne McGinnis

“A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech- he will measure every word.”

— Arun Gandhi

“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“He only had the imperfect medium of words.”

— Sara Gruen

“he believed that all language, except for the most basic and elementary, was metaphorical, and even the highly desiccated metaphors are not verbal algebra.”

— Andrew Davison

“The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing…

— Chris Nicolaisen

“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.”

— Alison Bechdel

“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”

— E.M. Forster

“He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and customs. At…

— Leila Aboulela