Language Quotes · Page 170

“The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.”

— Meša Selimović

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

— Dennis Farina

“But life does not consist of words. Life consists of reality.”

— Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

— Jon Gordon

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

— Stephen King

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

— Yance Ford

“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)”

— Horace

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

— Veronica Roth

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only…

— Charles James

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride…

— Benjamin Franklin

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

— Robert Dale Owen

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

— Mark Doty

I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it…

— Marian Seldes

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them…

— Herta Muller

“In fact, she rather liked it, and found that their mutual lack of language skills freed them from the banalities of conversation.”

— Violet Kupersmith

“I am not a ghost, I screamed without words. I am not nothing. I am not nameless; I will not fade into…

— Jordan Ifueko

That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had…

— Pascal Mercier

“In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being…

— Peter Sloterdijk

America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by…

— Thomas Paine

For me making friends with locals is hard, mostly because my lack of Vietnamese language skills and being retired I have limited…

— Doug Rice

Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our…

— Noam Chomsky

“Words have an immense power over people. Words represent ideas and thoughts. No matter what anyone says, we all care, to a…

— Alison G. Bailey

“By their dependence on the spoken word for information, people were drawn together into a tribal mesh . . . the spoken…

— James Gleick

In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and…

— Charlton Heston

“There just aren't enough o's in the word smooth for me, are there?”

— Lani Diane Rich

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

— Francois Rabelais

Looking back at my career, if there's one word that most people use to describe me, it's intense.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

— Johnny Flynn

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

— Helene Cixous

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

— Carine Roitfeld

I know what I want to say, but I just can't put it all in words.

— Uknown

It's scary to think that there are words meant for me but were never said to me.

— Anonymous

“Who Dares Wins... I Dared... Words spoken by many, but realised by few..”

— Ashton E. Silver

“But Lord! once one began mouthing words aloud, how silly they sounded!”

— Virginia Woolf

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

— John Brown

God's Word refreshes our mind and God's Spirit renews our strength.

— T. B. Joshua

“The genius of the word is that it’s more of an expression than a word.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

That's Paul's great weapon, words. He uses them like other men use their fists.

— Curtis Siodmak

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

People, irrespective of the language they speak, love good music.

— Vidyasagar