Quote by W.S. Gilbert

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.”

— James Joyce

“When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire…

— Marianne Moore

“The power of words is awful, Frida. Sometimes I want to bury my typewriter in a box of quilts. The radio makes everything worse,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.”

— Valeria Luiselli

“Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that…

— Christie Watson

“Eventually, there's certain limit in telling bare fact through words. It ain't about diction constraints, but common ability to understand.”

— Toba Beta

“Out of ten listener, only one can recite accurately what he/she heard exactly from the speaker, others will tell you less, more, crooked and…

— Bradley B. Dalina

“Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Consider the possibility that many of the things you hear and say are utter nonsense and meaningless repetitions of noise.”

— Bryant McGill

“Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.”

— John White

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

— Sarah J. Maas