Language Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and…

— Og Mandino

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

— Francis Bacon

Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as…

— Julian Whitaker

My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.

— Maggie Stiefvater

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

— Amin Maalouf

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have a terrible confession to make, sort of like those people who say that they've been mispronouncing a word all their life: I've…

— David Salle

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a…

— Anonymous

“[F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad - namely a…

— Aldous Huxley

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. .

— Ritu Ghatourey

“The only way to strip words of their power was to erase them. Of course, once one had been released into the world you…

— Jodi Picoult

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

— Jeffrey Eugenides