Marisha Pessl Quotes

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

Words fall short sometimes.

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue.

I think what kids who like heavy music are really looking for is the honesty and candour of it.

You know the thing about a picture being worth a thousand words? A look can be worth a million.

Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey.' ... Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.

It's interesting that there are places that words can't get to.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.