Language Quotes · Page 168

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.”

— Gail Honeyman

Love is a stronge word to use but don't use it unless you mean it.

— Jada Adams

“You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words.

— Debbie Millman

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

— Alphonse Karr

“That was…” he began. “No. I’m done. I don’t have the words. You sucked my vocabulary out with my cum.”

— Tiffany Reisz

There are no words I can use to describe my love for you.

— Anonymous

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language,…

— Chinmayi

Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in…

— Frederick Lenz

“Now yet again I discover I do not have the language, the lingo, to talk to her about this, or about anything.…

— Sebastian Barry

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

— Black Hawk

A day-time song like 'Word Starts Attack,' I want to make your heart blow up and make you want to punch the…

— Johnny Marr

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to…

— Robert Barry

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a…

— PJ Harvey

“Later, when his desires had been satisfied, he slept in an odorous whorehouse, snoring lustily next to an insomniac tart, and dreamed.…

— Salman Rushdie

“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the…

— Rosie O'Donnell

If you're not geographically diverse, it's hard to even speak a language that makes sense to folks in faraway places. That's especially…

— Steve Bullock

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a…

— Robert Mugabe

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which…

— Iris Murdoch

Once, a man at the customs duty check at the Delhi Airport asked me a question in Hindi, and I told him…

— Vetrimaaran

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied…

— John Locke

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

— Aldous Huxley

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

— Joe Perry

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

— Charlotte Forten Grimke

“The other day, I tried to remember what was the word for ‘dragonfly’ and couldn’t.”

— Donna Tartt

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

— Terry Eagleton

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

— Thomas Leonard

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

— Antonio Banderas

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

— Samuel R. Delany

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

— Oscar Wilde

“A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.”

— Sara Sheridan

“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…”

— Daniel S. Fletcher

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it.

— Peter Kindersley

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

— E. M. Forster

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

— N. Scott Momaday

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

— Lucas Grabeel