Language Quote by John Locke

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you…

— Margaret Heffernan

One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we…

— James W. Pennebaker

Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes…

— Maya Angelou

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never…

— Mary Oliver

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before…

— John Ray

“Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don’t realize the real power of words. But I do. Thoughts…

— Atheneum Books for Young Readers

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

— John Ray

A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words that are…

— Vikrant Parsai

The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

— Maria Montessori

The copywriter uses words as tools to persuade and motivate an audience. You persuade your readers that you have something valuable to offer; you…

— Richard Bayan

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the…

— Eugene Ionesco

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch