“Use language that displays confidence. Many men and women unintentionally use language that displays a lack of confidence.”— Joshua Pompey, huffingtonpost.com
“Learn a language. If you’re both sitting at the computer at a loss for new conversation topics, you might as well open a language learning program and go through it together, lesson by lesson.”— Escape Normal, escapenormal.com
“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.”— Franz Wright, amazon.com
“Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Learn a language. If you’re a wine lover, chances are you love traveling to Europe to visit your favorite wine regions. Don’t be the typical tourist who refuses to speak the native language.”— Louise Jones, winerist.com
“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print--the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively…”— John Edward Williams, amazon.com
“Call it a "member" or anything other than its anatomical designation.”— Reed Tucker, marieclaire.com
“I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean. Neither more nor less.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.com
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.com
“So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.”— Garth Stein, amazon.com
“No matter what language you speak or what part of the world you’re from, there’s a universal language of laughter, smiles, and love.”— Gloria Atanmo, gumroad.com
“And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“He's bi-lingal. It's a very good sign if he speaks more than one language because it implies intelligence and effort: he's willing to work hard for rewards.”— Tracey Cox, dailymail.co.uk