Language Quote by Neil Leckman

“Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturitions are to me, As plurdled gabbleblotchits, On a lurgid bee, That mordiously hath blurted out, Its earted jurtles, Into…

— Douglas Adams

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

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

— Francis Bacon

“I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language”

— Annie Proulx

“I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I am careless; I forget rules; I…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.”

— Ho Tzu Nyen

“You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator…We have too many high sounding words, and too few…

— Abigail Adams

“Know the adjectives that define you and pay no heed to the verbs that defy you.”

— Vidya Kumar

“How carelessly we used words, thoughtless of the trail of slime and sludge they left behind. Mouth, tongue, teeth, all sullied with the rot…

— Faiqa Mansab

“I should like to caution you agains the perils of an exercise marked by an exchange of verbiage even in poetic language. But, in…

— PN Haksar

“All round me are words, and words and words, They grow on me like leaves, they never Seem to stop their slow growing From…

— Kamala Suraiyya Das

“Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside…

— Richard Russo