Language Quotes · Page 147

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

— Stephen Sondheim

“At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.”

— Bodhidharma

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

— Robert Frost

“A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

— David James Duncan

Love is a 4-letter word that everyone's trying to define.

— Rhiel14

“A man has his word, even when he has nothing else to give.”

— Paul W. Feenstra

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

— Mark Strand

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to…

— Henry Sweet

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit…

— George Grey

Portuguese is the language of my heart; it's the language of my feelings. It's the language that I feel I can express…

— Jose Aldo

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

— David Antin

“You will learn as you get older, my dear girl, that not everyone reads as you do. Not everyone has the same…

— Anne Rice

Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does…

— Ray Birdwhistell

My love language is drinking multiple drinks. I love being with a friend while we sip coffee, juice, a smoothie, and tea…

— Molly Gordon

“It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect…

— Charles Darwin

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great…

— Mark Twain

“Because it is occasionally possible, just for brief moments, to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many…

— Ted Hughes

“Left to our own devices, we are apt to backslide to our instinctive conceptual ways. This underscores the place of education in…

— Steven Pinker

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that…

— George du Maurier

What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my…

— Ben Wheatley

My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language,…

— Laura Moser

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

— David Bezmozgis

“In other words, it is a great deal more dignified to battle with words.”

— Rick Johnson

The rose speaks o love silently. in a language known only to the heart of heart.

— Anonymous

My wife and I had words the other night. . . . . . . . . . Well, I had words; She had paragraphs.

— Green Monk

“I've missed you." The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.”

— J.D. Salinger

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

— Robert Morgan

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

— Winston Churchill

“Nothing is Impossible. The word "impossible" itself reads "I'm Possible"!”

— Mayor A. Lan

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

— David Bennun

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

— Neil Gaiman

I love words, and I love that there's so many words available to make a point and to create a picture.

— Paul F. Tompkins

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

— Samuel Beckett

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean...

— Dave Matthews