Language Quotes · Page 143

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.

— Sandra Brown

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Obviousism—I would give you a definition, but the definition would only be an example of the word.”

— Jarod Kintz

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

— Anonymous

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

— Anne Sexton

Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

— Andrew Lakey

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I could make a speech about death. But words are just not enough. Therefore, there's not much I can say.

— Tahj Wilson

I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.

— Karin Tidbeck

I'm doing well in Toronto and I'm starting to study the language. It's right that way, to understand people, my teammates and…

— Lorenzo Insigne

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an…

— Steven Pinker

“Words are seeds. They grow with time. Wisdom is to plant in your mind words that you desire to harvest.”

— Grace Penuel

The world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of…

— Richard Branson

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

— Oscar Wilde

3 words that are often over looked...it takes only 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain it, and it takes a…

— Baddaz

“[... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of…

— Sondra Horton Fraleigh

When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're…

— Anna Quindlen

“It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through…

— Paulo Coelho

“The actor can learn from the painter about the emotive power of facial expressions. The painter from the designer, about the potential…

— Frank Chimero

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not…

— Bertrand Russell

There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated…

— Don DeLillo

I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak…

— Alan Bishop

It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.

— Elmore Leonard

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

— Manly Hall

“Some things need to be said. And sometimes they require strong words.”

— Jessi Kirby

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

— Chuck Palahniuk

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

— Oswald Chambers

I never wrote sentences with words, they were painful feelings with unsaid emotions

— Sushan Sharma

“...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.”

— Lanier Ivester

“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.”

— Kate Forsyth

“A great writer weaves words like a painter mixes colors.”

— James D. Maxon

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

— Ambrose Bierce

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

— Confucius

I know the language of hard work. I don't think I have known any other language in life.

— Hardik Pandya

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

— Patricia Ryan

“This are things, and things can be loved. But I cannot love words.”

— Hermann Hesse

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

— John Dryden

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

— Shahrukh Khan