Language Quote by Maya Angelou

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

— Francis Bacon

“We sit in silence, the air between bristling with words unsaid.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“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

“The conversations were important; not the words spoken during them.”

— Lindy Zart

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words?”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“a heap of words designed to hinder communication rather than facilitate it.”

— Hugh Howey

“...I think that we succumb to attitudes that do not permit us to dialogue: domination, not knowing how to listen, annoyance in our speech,…

— Jorge Mario Bergoglio

“trying to tough what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the…

— Donna Goddard

“So much of what we talked of can never be written. It was born and grew and developed but not visibly. There was no…

— Sarah Ferguson

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

— Vivek Shanbhag