Bright lights Quote by Ted E. Brewerton

“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake…

— Carolina De Robertis

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

— Tom Robbins

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us…

— Laura Schlessinger

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that…

— Audre Lorde

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because…

— Marcel Duchamp

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

— Jeanette Winterson

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

— George Carlin

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

— Oliver Sacks

Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we…

— Michael Cadnum

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the…

— Frederick Buechner

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by…

— Jacques Ellul