Language Quotes · Page 165

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

— Erica Jong

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

— George Saunders

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

— Thomas Jefferson

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

— Joe Hill

Love is not a word you say and walk away from, if you say you love someone you stay.

— David Vigil

Music is a great communication and language can never be a barrier.

— Anonymous

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

— Maya Angelou

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

— Shepard Smith

The idea of New Zealanders sounding like Americans is not it. You got to rhyme in your language, your accent.

— KRS-One

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language…

— Noam Chomsky

If you think your words are the waves that come to destroy my boat. You're completely wrong. Your words are actually the…

— Skylerbling

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your…

— Orlando Bloom

Sometime a blank paper tells u whole story. Some time even a book lacks the meanings. It is true that word are…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Love. Sometimes it's not what you say. It's what you do and how you make one feel without the use of words.…

— Carla Gipson Lizana

In creating the silkpunk aesthetic, I was influenced by the ideas of W. Brian Arthur, who articulates a vision of technology as…

— Ken Liu

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive… our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages -…

— Peter Drucker

So, for people who aren't aware: the biggest obstacle to having hearing loss is not having access to language. And there are…

— Lauren Ridloff

There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting…

— Greg Bear

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort…

— Bruce Springsteen

The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by…

— Edmund Burke

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in…

— Edward Sapir

In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of…

— Pattiann Rogers

Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion,…

— Van Jones

I think the language that we use in dealing with one another is very important. And even if I am called upon…

— Chinua Achebe

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

— Drake

The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.

— Lauren Oliver

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

— Theodore Bikel

More than words is all you have to do to make it real:)

— Jade

“All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.”

— Woody Guthrie

The word 'no' is not for me. I don't hear it. You always have to try again and again.

— Frank Lowy

“Listen closely. Hang on to every word. But most of all, please believe me.”

— Calia Read

“Storms. How did you describe taste? "It's like color.. you see with your mouth." [Shallan] grimaced.”

— Brandon Sanderson

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

— George Eliot

“Words won’t have meaning until you put your emotions into them.”

— Pratik Akkawar

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

— James Caan

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

— Anne Waldman

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

— Jack Woodford

life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.

— Frank O'Hara

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

— Diane Wakoski

“If you want to be heard, learn the language of your listeners.”

— Jeffrey G. Duarte