#words

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ↗

— George Sand

#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#curious #dead #english #english people #few

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#given #his #man #order #thoughts

Words are loaded pistols. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#pistols #words

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#powerful #than #think #treacherous #words

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties. ↗

— George Saunders

#describe #enough #funny #like #love

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#belonging #between #category #common #creates

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#correctly #excellent #grammar #like #pronounce

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#anything #convey #describe #meaning #scene

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.' ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git