Language Quotes · Page 149

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

— Seneca the Younger

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

— Nicole Krauss

Light is actually the first word I said as a little baby.

— Gary Busey

There are caregivers and there are caretakers, and yet the two words are not opposites. Why is this?

— Nikhil Saluja

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

— Haruki Murakami

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

— Temple Grandin

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

People who have made their name in this film industry have called it a gutter. I completely disagree. I hope that the…

— Jaya Bachchan

“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.…

— Tarun Betala

Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.

— Jeff Bezos

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

— Michael Ondaatje

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of…

— Robert Barry

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how…

— Lewis Grizzard

The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his…

— George Saunders

An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general…

— John Updike

The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form,…

— Michael Helm

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself…

— Antonin Artaud

“Now you must close your eyes. Yes, that is it. Selinda, you, too. Good. Good. Bring in the dark that I may…

— Jane Yolen

“There are enough unresolved metaphysical problems in the Categories and the Isagoge (a brilliantly unsuccessful attempt to defuse these problems) to make…

— John Marenbon

“Even the language to which a man is born and in which he makes known his wants is a foreign language. What…

— Harry W. Wilson

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways,…

— Richard Leakey

They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and…

— Frederick Lenz

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

— Jeanne Moreau

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

— Yiyun Li

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

— Mark Forsyth

“Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.”

— John Patrick Lowrie

“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.”

— Paul Valéry

“Death is only a translation of life into another language.”

— Francis Marion Crawford

That awkward moment when you realize you've been mispronouncing a word your entire life...

— Anonymous

“A person can speak many languages and still struggle to say what they feel.”

— Yurii Ivchenko

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

— Anonymous

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.”

— Amit Kalantri

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

— Timothy West

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

— Bill Watterson

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words.

— Alexandre Desplat

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

— Susan Abulhawa