Language Quotes · Page 146

“What can sanctified the soul? The Word of God, the Holy Scripture, the Truth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

— Rachel Riley

“what i miss most is certainly the words and the quiet”

— Hanna Abi Akl

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

— Julianna Baggott

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

— Stephen King

I had the opportunity to travel to America when I was younger and learned the language.

— Rodri

“No word is too grand or too infinitesimal to be considered”

— David Levithan

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

— Taylor Swift

“This swarming of words behind words, thoughts behind thoughts--this universal substitution is also a kind of stability.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very…

— Joseph Boyden

“If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on…

— William Gibson

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

— John Henry Newman

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

— Agatha Christie

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

— Toni Collette

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad…

— Walter Benjamin

I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I…

— Olga Kurylenko

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And…

— Kenneth Burke

I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people…

— Frances Hesselbein

The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important…

— Paulo Coelho

It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change…

— Christopher McDowell

I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that…

— Paul Reed Smith

People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt…

— James Gosling

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Smile …the simplest language even a baby can understand…

— Anonymous

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

— Margaret Cho

“Language is not the barrier, the heart is". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

— Lytton Strachey

No, you can't take back your words. Because once you say them, there's no refund.

— Francine Chiar

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”

— Lance Conrad

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If no words come, you can always give him the finger.

— Simone Elkeles

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

— Steven Berkoff

I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you.

— Faraaz Kazi

“You know there’s a word for someone like you … naïve.”

— Joanne McClean

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

— Albert Einstein

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

— Yasunari Kawabata

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

— Eric Gill

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

— James Arthur

“... A little word can have a big impact. The difference between all and some. - Liz Sutton”

— Susan Mallery