Bigs Quote by Toni Morrison

Just because I have a good vocabulary, I don't think of myself as anachronistic - just because I try not to use the word…

— Paul F. Tompkins

“How many words are you having trouble with, sir?" "Just the ones that I've highlighted." "I count at least a dozen, and I haven't…

— Howard Tayler

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

— Joan Barfoot

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are…

— Christopher Hitchens

I've been collecting linguistic oddities for years and years, ever since I was small. I've got loads of notebooks where I've jotted down things…

— Susie Dent

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in…

— Bo Derek

“ Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly . It only requires a little pains, a little care,…

— Joseph Devlin

“Usually, I say, your mind gets stuck when you’re trying to do too many things at once. What you have to do is try…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

— Voltaire

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from…

— Aleister Crowley