Language Quote by Shion Miura Download Open image ““You cannot use a word properly if you don’t know precisely what it means.”” — Shion Miura ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language
“You know what a word means when you know how to use it, not what its definition is. That is why we can understand… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.” — Joan Barfoot Copy Share Image
“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.” — Derek B. Miller Copy Share Image
“There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.” — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.” — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“And you pretend to be stupid, which is completely disingenuous. Big word, but I know you know what it means.” — Kim Harrington Copy Share Image
“The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.” — Rebecca James Copy Share Image
“I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
“A dictionary is a ship that crosses the sea of words,” said Araki, with a sense that he was laying bare his innermost soul.… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“Professor . . .” Majime was moved by this declaration. “Words and the human heart that creates them are absolutely free, with no connection to the… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“And however perfectionist you tried to be, in the end words were alive, in constant flux. No dictionary could ever achieve true completion.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“He grew interested in words as a means of communicating thoughts and feelings, and majored in linguistics in college.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“What’s your hobby, Majime?” Nishioka boldly asked, searching for a friendly overture. A bit of wood ear mushroom was sticking out of a corner… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“Any dictionary, no matter how well made, was destined to go out of date. Words were living things.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“I think it’s better if two people don’t expect too much of each other.” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“Yes, it matters. The Great Passage is supposed to be a dictionary for a new age. If we yield to the majority and stay… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“These people so entranced by dictionaries were outside the bounds of Nishioka’s understanding. He couldn’t even be sure they thought of their work as… — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“What if the interior of a room mirrors the interior of its inhabitant?” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
“His useless pride had become so swollen that the expression 'caring nothing for appearances' could never, ever apply to him” — Shion Miura Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
