Inadequacy Of Words Quotes

#1. We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.

Atifete Jahjaga

#2. If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

#3. Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

#4. Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

Patricia A. McKillip

#5. For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Aldous Huxley

#6. Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Theodore Dreiser

#7. There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.

Charlie Dent

#8. The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino

#9. We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don't know.

Anne Rice

#10. I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

Noel Redding

#11. Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Horace

#12. What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

Thomas Carlyle

#13. It's not what you project ... it's what you don't show.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

Virginia Woolf

#15. Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

Hugh Prather

#16. To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

Eleanor Catton

#17. The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

Jodi Picoult

#19. I simply do not subscribe to the hypocrisy of sitting in a church surrounded by an overprivileged Society that sings alleluias on Sunday and practices hedonism the rest of the week.

Sophie Jordan

#20. You'll let him talk you out of your dreams. That's what love does sometimes- talks you out of your dreams." "Not me," Katie said. "Jack would talk me into my dreams.

Patti Callahan Henry

#21. I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

Emmanuelle Seigner

#22. She weighed her possibilities.

Aleatha Romig

#23. I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

Kenny G

#24. Through all the drama - whether damned or not -Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan