Paulo Coelho Quotes

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

We must plow through the whole of language.

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.