Language Quotes · Page 155

I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!

— Steve Ballmer

In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

— Umar

“so little of what anything means comes through words.”

— Andre Alexis

“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

— Winston Churchill

Six letters, two words, easy to say, hard to explain, harder to do: Move On.

— Anonymous

Words don't come very easily to me. Which, given my profession, is a worrying impediment.

— Nick Hornby

“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of…

— Ayn Rand

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

— Jodi Picoult

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling…

— Daniel Handler

We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children…

— Marc Forne Molne

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects,…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They…

— Neale Donald Walsch

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process.…

— Lynn Nottage

What The Word IMPOSSIBLE Says, I M Possible. So Every Thing Which Seems Impossible Is Itself Says That Is Possible...

— Pacifiersucker

Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase…

— Bergen Evans

The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a…

— Mark Johnson

One of the things that I think about is: How do you make moments that float, transparent? Moments that could just float…

— Claudia Rankine

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point…

— Yann Martel

“Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged…

— John Steinbeck

I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set…

— Pablo Neruda

“Words are capable of flying. They dart through windows, over fences, between bar stools and across courtyards. They travel rapidly from mouth…

— Jess Kidd

I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.

— Terry Pratchett

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

— Weston La Barre

Gujaratis are really cute people, and I find Gujarati to be a very sweet language.

— Urvashi Rautela

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

— Fred Frith

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

— Tibor Kalman

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

— David Mitchell

“If keeping your word is the mark of a weak person, I pray for more weak people.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Where difference of opinions arises, to retract our words is a sign of a wise man.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

— Bill Cosby

Once a story is set to a particular city, language and culture, the rest just follows.

— Rockline Venkatesh

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

— Adrienne Rich

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

— Will Smith

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

— Edward Gibbon

My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.

— Maggie Stiefvater

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Perfect. There’s the word again: a locked-door word – stifling, strangling.”

— Lauren Oliver