Language Quote by Patricia Caliskan

“I am barren of words my female. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing.”

— J.R. Ward

“I'm not sure how you do this to me. I barely remember you whole, just the hair or beard, the legs, arms, all separate,…

— Ruth Ellen Kocher

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke…

— Peter Watts

“Lovers have a language that can be lost--how to speak, how to touch, when to try.”

— Parke Godwin

“It amazed her, the length at which old men could talk. She wondered if it wasn't the sound of his own voice, rather than…

— Omar El Akkad

“One would think of a boy laying syllables with his tongue onto a woman’s skin: those are lines sewn entirely of silence.”

— Ilya Kaminsky

“Our voices sound kinder in the skin of our own language.”

— Melina Marchetta

“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without the care…

— Pascal Mercier

“I was learning that the best conversations consisted of keeping quiet and listening, and speaking, when one spoke at all, in words of a…

— Alan Bradley

“I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the…

— Amy Tan