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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Language, Word, Humor, Criticism

"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."

John Green, American Author

Language, Memory, Communication, Change

"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

Language, Mood, Meaning, Context

"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Language, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Life

"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Language, Word, Thought, Expression, Communication

"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Language, Meaning, Creativity, Expression

"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Language, Communication, Silence, Expression

"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Language, Word, Love, Truth, Meaning

"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Language, Sound, Sense, Poetry

"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Language, Truth, Curiosity, Humor, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Theo Van Gogh

"I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland."

Life

"No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result."

Thought

"Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs."

Life

"I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that."

Talent

"If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America."

Opinion

"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."

Fact

"The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through."

Comfort

"I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me."

Thought

"My use of language is part and parcel of my message."

Language