Language Quotes · Page 160

Sorry can be the hardest word when you know you're wrong.

— Tarkan

Words don't define me. Actions, my faith, and the strength of my relationships and family do.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

— Pythagoras

Words that do not create images should be discarded.

— Gerry Spence

In the beginning was the word and the word was with and God

— Collins Adoma Asante

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

— Anonymous

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

— John Birmingham

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

— Pamela Anderson

“Not only can rearranging our sentences to avoid ending them in prepositions sound pretentious, it’s also unnecessary. Grammar experts agree that it’s…

— Jenny Baranick

Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality…

— Alister E. McGrath

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“There it was again, another strange usage. 'We had words.' Everyone has words...What a useless euphemism. The phrases that people used to…

— Laura Lippman

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all…

— Northrop Frye

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this…

— Sebastian Thrun

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

— T. S. Eliot

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited…

— Daniel Alarcon

“I heard a tale once,' said Isi, 'of the gifts of language. Do you know it? How in faraway places, there are…

— Shannon Hale

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your…

— Todd Haynes

Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since…

— Jeanette Winterson

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things…

— P.D. Ouspensky

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them…

— Vanna Bonta

“You told me trees could speak and the only reason one heard silence in the forest was that they had all been…

— Carol Goodman

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally…

— Don DeLillo

That's big to be able to speak another language on the court.

— Evan Fournier

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

— Brooks Atkinson

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

— Margaret Atwood

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

— Henri Nouwen

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

— Tony Judt

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

— Michael Showalter

Can't shouldn't be in a mans vocabulary, because when a man says can't he ain't a man.

— Anonymous

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

— Thomas Keating

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

— Jess Phillips

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

— Eavan Boland

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

— Ambrose Bierce

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath israrely found.

— Alexander Pope

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

— Martha Graham

“There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”

— Fernando Pessoa