Language Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.

— Sandra Cisneros

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

— Michel de Montaigne

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

— Beyonce Knowles

You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps…

— J. L. Austin

And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.

— Stephen Amell

Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

— Alain Badiou

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good.…

— R. O. Blechman

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem…

— Sarah Kay