Language Quote by Toba Beta

“But there are some times when words are necessary - when explanations are needed that mere gestures cannot convey.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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

“The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.”

— Andy Rooney

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

“Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.”

— Paul Auster

“Things we say in one line generally can't be explained by us even in hundreds.”

— Lovely Goyal

“... words are just words, but the meanings they carry, the way the world bends around them, that's what's complicated.”

— M. King

“There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.”

— Amy King

“Words, even the most ephemeral ones are facts, as heavy as fetters, they leave deep marks.”

— Anonymous

“I had never realized before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words they need to describe themselves.”

— Cassandra Clare