Differences Quote by Kent Haruf

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

— Patricia A. McKillip

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

— George Orwell

“There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words, the boy thought… He was learning lots of new things. Some of them were…

— Paulo Coelho

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it,…

— Haruki Murakami

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

— Jose Saramago

“if you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take—if you thought at all? Of course you thought—she had never had any…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.”

— Terry Pratchett

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring…

— Edward R. Murrow

“...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

“He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words…

— Mal Peet

There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still…

— Jeaniene Frost