What’s another word for Thesaurus?

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what’s left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

I grew up cursing a lot.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

Language is the dress of thought.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Syllables govern the world.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Words are loaded pistols.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

I ain’t never called nobody no redskin. I’ve never been mad, like, ‚Get out of this restaurant, you redskin.‘

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

The way I talk is bizarre.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

If you can talk, you can write.

It’s very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that’s not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It’s a gut feeling.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you’re fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

Be not a slave of words.