Language Quotes · Page 179

I thank you. I am not of many words, but I thank you.

— William Shakespeare (1564_1616

You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers.

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

— Anonymous

Words from a quote in life is much easier, they are difficult

— Mak_786

''Free Beer Here'', my three favourite words in one sentence.

— Ike Ekemah

For me, love is only a word to show 4 words together

— Kand3n

Words have no meaning if your actions speak a different truth.

— Anonymous

Donald Trump was sharp; he was very perceptive. He was engaging. He had this expansive vocabulary, and he very seldom took breaks.

— Omarosa Manigault Newman

“Cold in my professions, warm in ⟨my⟩ friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it m⟨ight⟩ be in my power, by action rather…

— Alexander Hamilton

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to…

— Italo Calvino

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in…

— Aimee Bender

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

— Sandra Cisneros

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the…

— William James

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which…

— Rachel Cusk

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good…

— Mos Def

English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is…

— Paul Scott

He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is…

— Charlotte Bronte

Each year, in this world, several languages do die out. There are certain languages that have their survival assured for many years,…

— Jaume Cabre

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of…

— Louis Menand

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language…

— Sven Birkerts

People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need…

— Andrew Curry

I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on…

— Anna Journey

When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.

— Anna Deavere Smith

We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.

— Sorin Cerin

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

— Hilaire Belloc

“You are the deep innerness of all things, the last word that can never be spoken.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“After all, the best alibi is not the word of a friend, he knew, but the testimony of an enemy.”

— P.J. Bracegirdle

“At some point you have to choose between life and fiction." The Words”

— The Words

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

— Donald Hall

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words are what will kill me.

— Anonymous

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.

— Don Roff

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words. And that must be feeling.

— Anonymous

The journey of liberalization began when man began communicating in words than action.

— Dr Kurien S Thomas

Being in L.A., I had seen the dark side of media and how words can be twisted.

— Josh Hart

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

— Anne Carson

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

— Al Capone

“I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language”

— Annie Proulx

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

— Barack Obama