Language Quotes · Page 151

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

— Roger Allam

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

— Paul Engle

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

If something is too perfect, it doesn't speak your language. If it's imperfect, I understand it.

— Rosalia

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

— Dana Spiotta

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

— Drew Barrymore

The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action.

— Confucius

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me unless they are written on sticks and stones.”

— Nitya Prakash

“We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always…

— Dianna Hardy

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

— Adam Clymer

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sometimes you can't really control the language around you. All you can do is follow your voice and your path - dedicate…

— Nahnatchka Khan

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be…

— Plutarch

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react…

— Graham Joyce

The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the…

— Robert Burchfield

“It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language,…

— Edith Wharton

The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now…

— Jamaica Kincaid

You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know…

— Erik Naggum

“Words, so much more readily remembered, gradually replace our past with their own. Our birth pangs become pages. Our battles, our triumphs,…

— William H. Gass

I feel like I'm changing as a human being, and I think that the work needed to be in line with where…

— Fernando Mastrangelo

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation…

— Geraldine Brooks

In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words…

— Gary Snyder

“The most rigorous reading is to find what those words on that page mean in our own lives.”

— Kylene Beers

Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.

— Jerome Roldan

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

— Elissa Schappell

The more I read about words; the more careful I am about using them

— Anonymous

Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better.

— Jack Kerouac

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

— John Millington Synge

“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

Words spoken can go as far as air can go and stay close to our heart we can not always eat them.

— Kishore Bansal

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

— Gertrude Stein

I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own.

— Eric McCormack

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

— Sebastian Coe

The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary.

— Robert Cheeke

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

— Eudora Welty

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.

— Sandra Cisneros

“Your words create images and eventually you will live out the reality of that image.”

— Charles Capps

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

— Kingsley Amis