Language Quote by James Joyce

“His mind was a turmoil of words and fancies, incomplete fancies and insufficient words, but already he knew that this and only this was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose…

— Carson McCullers

“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

“Words were inadequate, but all he had. He didn't know where they came from or why, but it was how we told one another…

— Samantha Silva

“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

“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from…

— Diana Gabaldon

“For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as…

— Thomas Wolfe

“Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance of his actions which were too contrary…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I didn’t have a vocabulary for what he did to me, but then no one had been able to define the man himself. An…

— Skye Warren

“He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that everyone on earth was capable of…

— Paulo Coelho

“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare…

— Leo Tolstoy