Language Quotes · Page 166

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

— Jim Rohn

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

— Jerry Lewis

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

— Amy Tan

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

— John Calvin

Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.

— Peter Weiss

“pleasure at word that you were en route from England.”

— Sandee Keegan

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

— Amos Oz

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

— Glen Duncan

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips…

— Glenn Ligon

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and…

— William Jones

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in…

— Bertrand Russell

If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

— Howard Shore

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

— Abraham Lincoln

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or…

— Deb Caletti

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is…

— Edward Sapir

Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way…

— Harold Innis

The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The…

— Zhuangzi

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really…

— Tom Verica

My fear -- and what Ive read and heard -- is that lesbians feel like [The L Word cast] all have long…

— Leisha Hailey

I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Andy Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. I do…

— Damian Loeb

I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring,…

— Jack Black

Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that…

— Gilles Deleuze

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

— John Lydon

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

— Theodore Bikel

“When we speak with emoji, we’re speaking a language that machines can understand.”

— Nicholas Carr

“You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.”

— Peter Watts

I have poetry in my soul but it's written in a language very few understand.

— @efiosiugbore

“Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended. -Bound”

— Donna Jo Napoli

“One word at a time, makes a novel at the finish line." - Vik Tory Arch”

— Vik Tory Arch

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

— William Shakespeare

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

— E. V. Lucas

“Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.”

— Carlos Fuentes

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

— Socrates

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

— James Thurber

“I am a complete slave to vocabulary, I ought to have named my cat Roget.”

— Muriel Barbery

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson