Language Quotes · Page 141

“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.”

— Nataly Kelly

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

— Timothy Noah

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

— Luis von Ahn

Words are powerful. They have the ability to create a moment and the strength to destroy it.

— Anonymous

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

— Rob Pike

“The intention behind the words is always more important than the words themselves.”

— Jackie Arnold

Why should I just limit myself to the Urdu language? Why not sing in different languages?

— Junaid Jamshed

I'm getting to compose music for diverse language films from all over the country.

— Amit Trivedi

For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not,…

— Kate Morton

And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

— Diane Ackerman

“Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Words are the most beautiful things existed in the world, but they die as fast as they were born, unless you convert…

— Sue Monk Kido

“We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The arts vividly illustrate the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits…

— Rachelle Doorley

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea.…

— Sara Coleridge

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

— Laozi

The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of…

— Christian Morgenstern

It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not…

— Lisa Gerrard

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew…

— Margaret Mitchell

“This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the…

— Nidesh Lawtoo

The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into…

— Christian Friedrich Schonbein

I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated…

— James W. Fowler

A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios, and together they built a fortress around…

— Adam Curtis

“Words to a writer is like notes to a musician, both know when they are off key.”

— June Davidson

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“languages. Notice how they almost make sense, some of them.’ ‘Yes, and that’s”

— Vernor Vinge

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

— Raymond Carver

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

— Alice Hoffman

'You are a master of the words you don't say and a slave to the ones you do!'

— Anonymous

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

— Robert Frost

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Dont put words in my mouth¦my foot is already in there.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

— Ben Stiller

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

— Elie Wiesel

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

— Tibor Kalman

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

— Maggie Grace

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

— Anonymous