Language Quotes · Page 167

We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.

— Shay Carl

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

— Thomas Harrison

“Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”

— Anonymous

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

— Jean Sibelius

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

— Edmund Burke

Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say.

— Madonna Ciccone

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

— Holly Near

Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

— Arnold Adoff

That awkward moment When you are busy writing a rather long but important article and you start approaching the word limit of…

— Mak_786

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

— Washington Gladden

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on…

— Anonymous

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

— Nate Lowman

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

— Mary Doria Russell

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there…

— Elizabeth Berg

Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it…

— H. Emilie Cady

“were quite different from ours of today. English is used to represent the languages. But two points may be noted. (1)”

— Anonymous

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech.…

— Nouman Ali Khan

How can we appraise a proposal if the terms hurled at our ears can mean anything or nothing, and change their significance…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea…

— Joan Didion

“Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads…

— Tony Vigorito

It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more…

— James Fenton

“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and…

— Steven Pinker

“Words are wind, even words like love and peace. I put more trust in deeds.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Only those who don't know the language of silence - express in words!” ”

— Ramana Pemmaraju

People irritate me when they try to use big words on Twitter and can't spell, define, or read them...

— Jerett Parker

I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.

— Nellie Bly

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

— Diane Wakoski

Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'

— Dr. Dre

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

— Jean Baudrillard

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

— Niels Bohr

That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.

— Dorothy Parker

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.”

— Stephen Fry

We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.

— Hilda Doolittle

Changing your entire message because you don't know how to spell one word!..

— Anonymous

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

— H. P. Lovecraft

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

— Pythagoras

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

— Greg Behrendt

My body language, it doesn't have anything to do with my coaches or my teammates.

— Michael Carter-Williams