Language Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Vivek Shanbhag

“My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination.”

— Patti Smith

“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words, behaving like…

— William H. Gass

“One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have…

— A.A. Milne

“With new words are created new worlds, as they are vehicles of new ideas. They enable the process of expanding the mind. The”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“Words are like physical objects around us that appear to be continuous and whole but are in fact composed of particles too small for…

— Christina Meldrum

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word…

— A.S. Byatt

“When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first…

— Orville Schell

“The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.”

— Jayne Bicker