Language Quotes · Page 161

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

— Antonin Artaud

Music don't have no color or no face. It's a universal language.

— Pimp C

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

— Carl Sandburg

Words matter. Especially if you're kicking someone's ass in words with friends.

— Bob Saget

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

— Guy Deutscher

I'm tired of pretending that your words are real when your actions speaks a different language.

— Usman Ismaheel

“Do that thing you do where you use too many words to say something simple and confuse the issue.”

— Leigh Bardugo

It is what it is and it's not what it's not the way peoples words affect you is how you take what…

— Irene DeLeon Alvarez

“93/7 Rule: 93% of communication occurs through nonverbal behavior & tone; only 7% of communication takes place through the use of words.”

— John Stoker

English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global…

— David Crystal

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

— James Merrill

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring…

— Marlene Caroselli

I think grammar teaching should start with real examples of language in use: journalism, fiction, songs, ads, instructions, headlines, transcripts of conversations…

— Michael Rosen

Moving to England, again it's a new language to learn, and I've got to get use to the mentality, the culture, but…

— Granit Xhaka

“I have seen words fly out at the end of thoughts and not return. I have seen things at the end of…

— Ricardo M. de Ungria

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.…

— Albert Einstein

Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is…

— Jessica Helfand

The other day, I was taking part in an audience Q&A when I was roundly scolded by a woman for 'allowing the…

— Sandi Toksvig

Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,…

— William Morris Hunt

“In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed…

— Rohinton Mistry

This is the key to understanding the virgin birth. God's Word is full of faith and spirit power. God spoke it. God…

— Charles Capps

I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps…

— David Crystal

I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of…

— Paulo Freire

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,

— Ingvar Kamprad

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

— Rudyard Kipling

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

— Jerzy Kosinski

“Listen to the language of the trees they speak in silence learn that alphabet.”

— Christina Strigas

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

— Ambrose Bierce

If it be a question of words and names - I will be no judge of such matters

— Bible

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

— Martial

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

— Confucius

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

— Elie Wiesel

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

— Keith Crown

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

— Frank Luntz

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

— Nana Mouskouri

“One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.”

— Voltaire

Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it.

— Liberace

“Hero is not the word I would use to describe myself on August 20. The word I would use is vessel .”

— Antoinette Tuff

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

— Susie Dent