Language Quotes · Page 171

“someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.”

— Umberto Eco

“Sometimes I wonder why words can't actually make us bleed.”

— Swati Avasthi

What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home.

— Ken Hammond

“Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.”

— Mary M. Forbes

“[I]f you don’t believe all of God’s word, you don’t truly believe.”

— Norma Gail

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

— Casey Miller

Love is love. There is no word to describe it. All I know is you have something to do with it

— Benjamin

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

— W. H. Auden

Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

— Johnny Flynn

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The…

— William Shakespeare

We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.

— James Righton

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything…

— David Duchovny

“Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are…

— Israelmore Ayivor

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity…

— Fisher Ames

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to…

— Luis Figo

I grew up with strong women around me. My grandmother came to this country not able to speak the language, on her…

— Laila Rouass

Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like…

— Dorothy Osborne

“I’d never traveled in this world. But I loved this world. And I would love it even more once I learned how…

— André Aciman

“He compiled lists of old words too – words of a precision and suggestiveness that no longer had a meaningful application in…

— Margaret Atwood

His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from…

— Charles Dickens

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too…

— Janet Fitch

“...only very few - only humans, as far as we know - achieve the second level of transcendent movement. Through this, the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was.…

— Cristina Henriquez

I was educated in London at Central Saint Martins and had this whole thing about getting together with a lot of international…

— Henrik Vibskov

“Don't try to defile the English language. I can think of a few things I'd rather dirty up.”

— S.L. Jennings

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

— Mae West

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

— Ed Markey

I don't pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.

— Angela Rayner

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

— Edgar Allan Poe

“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”

— Algernon Blackwood

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

— Virginia Woolf

“Every time I do something for you, I’m trying to demonstrate the words I cannot say.”

— Sylvain Reynard

Your body language is different when you're wearing the best cleats on the field.

— Carlos Correa

“It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”

— Andrew Jackson

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

— Paul Auster

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

— Tom Malinowski

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

— James Howell

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

— Dane Rudhyar

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

— George Eliot