Greek orthodox Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

— Agnes Martin

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“...that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be more dismaying…

— John Barth

“A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements…

— James Barr

“Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed--linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied,…

— Richard Powers

“We writers aren't sculpting in DNA, or even clay or mud, but words, sentences, paragraphs, syntax, voice; materials issued by tongue or fingertips but…

— Jonathan Lethem

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

— Francis Bacon

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a…

— Anonymous

I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'

— Sue Tompkins