Language Quote by James Fenimore Cooper

“Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.”

— Toba Beta

“... words are just words, but the meanings they carry, the way the world bends around them, that's what's complicated.”

— M. King

“The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.”

— Andy Rooney

“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

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“All things human begin with words.”

— David Rains Wallace

“The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.”

— Balthasar Gracian

“Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.”

— Kij Johnson

“But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only seems to…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“had a theory that everyone has a relationship with words—​whether they know it or not. It’s just that everybody’s relationship with words is different.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”

— José Ortega y Gasset