...life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Words are alive...
...cut them and they bleed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the depth of winter...
...I finally learned there was in me invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
"What do you mean?...
...Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"
- Gandalf
If we couldn't find any weirdness...
...maybe we'll just have to make some!
- Calvin
Language serves...
...not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
- Bertrand Russell
Words ought to be a little wild...
...for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes
If we spoke a different language...
...we would perceive a somewhat different world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Many excellent words...
...are ruined by too definite a knowledge of their meaning.