Language Quotes

Words are trivial

— Depeche Mode

“Words are weapons.”

— Cassandra Clare

I'm not great with words.

— Brooklyn Beckham

Words rule the World.

— Kishore Bansal

Words are powerful.

— Sage Northcutt

All words are prejudices.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Words have weight.”

— Stephen King

“Make Words, Not War”

— Gordon McIlwraith

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Three words for a writer: Make me care.”

— Buffy Andrews

I love language as I love life itself!

— Jacques Derrida

'Incurable' is a tough word. So is 'terminal.'

— Valerie Harper

It's not the words but the music that counts.

— Benjamin Spock

I have been working in seven languages.

— Atul Kulkarni

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

— Eddy Arnold

“His words were so...Phoenix. A complication.”

— Jessica Shirvington

“If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.”

— William Saroyan

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle

When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.

— Zacky Vengeance

“Exchange of words | with a witless ape Thou must not ever make.”

— Anonymous

Think before you say something, because one word can change everything. ;)

— MarLeaneEver

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

— Ravi Zacharias

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

— Neil Gaiman

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

— Bernard Pivot

“There was a whole vocabulary of suffering, eloquent in its wordlessness, which gave voice to all the things she couldn't do or…

— Kathleen Tessaro

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am…

— Franny Billingsley

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution…

— Penelope Keith

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time…

— Peter L. Berger

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

— Vanna Bonta

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may…

— Albert Einstein

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great,…

— Ivan Turgenev

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot…

— Confucius

I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.…

— William T. Vollmann

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are…

— Edward Tufte

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts,…

— Jason Mraz

I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I…

— Judit Polgar

In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one…

— Hailey Gates

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words…

— Pascal Mercier

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I…

— Anonymous

Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions…

— Dan Millman