Language Quotes · Page 150

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

— Ahdaf Soueif

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Don’t speak to them in the language of the dead, Mr. Marinville.”

— Stephen King

Words cannot express how tired they are of being used by you.

— Anonymous

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

— Gloria Steinem

Words dont mean anything when your actions say another.

— Anonymous

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

— Jeanette Winterson

“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.”

— Roland Barthes

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so…

— Henry Jackman

“And you trust yourself to divine that, from the words I use - to divine whether it comes from my heart?”

— J.M. Coetzee

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the…

— Eleanor Catton

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how…

— Neville Brody

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

— Julia Ward Howe

“Resurrection... ah, there's a word (that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it).”

— Stephen King

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the…

— Octavio Paz

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us:…

— Chinua Achebe

After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down…

— Paulo Coelho

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules…

— N.D. Wilson

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve…

— Muriel Barbery

“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable…

— Pat Conroy

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

— Fred A. Hartley, Jr

My words have always either attracted a strong mind or offended a weak one.

— Sherlyn Chopra

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

— Talib Kweli

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

— Orson Scott Card

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

— Mark Twain

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

— Joan Aiken

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

— Plutarch

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

— Thomas Middleditch

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

— William Zinsser

Meg: Excuse me, Mayor West? Adam West: How do you know my language?

— Family Guy

“Amazed at the onslaught of words heard, explanations were given, causes and consequences all told.”

— Susan Bernhardt

“The point of language puts us in the same position as lightning.”

— Kim Rosenfield

“For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.”

— Ken Follett

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

— Larry Wall

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

— Terry Tempest Williams

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

— Robert Breault