Top 16 Quotes About The Inadequacy Of Words
#1. Being an entrepreneur means that you are sort of inventing something new. You're giving birth to a company. You're giving birth to a new product, a new service. And that's always exciting.
Anousheh Ansari
#2. He looked as pained as I felt at that moment, and I figured we were dancing around something way more dangerous than the roof of my apartment building. If I didn't change the focus, one of us was bound to do something stupid, and soon.
Probably me.
T. Torrest
#3. In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
Jodi Picoult
#4. If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.
Linda J. Furney
#5. The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. 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
#7. Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
Hugh Prather
#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. 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
#10. For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
Aldous Huxley
#11. But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence. His fists were shut, his mouth set fast. He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow her. He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly. THE END
D.H. Lawrence
#12. Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
Patricia A. McKillip
#13. Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even.
Anthony Doerr
#15. Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Rumi
#16. If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
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