Language Quotes · Page 181

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

— Howard Hodgkin

“A whole language, according to UNESCO, disappears on average every two weeks.”

— Sebastian Smee

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

— David Antin

A bet is a bet and I always keep my word in the bet what I do.

— Enrique Iglesias

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

— Jacques Derrida

“If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.”

— DaShanne Stokes

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen.

— Jacques Derrida

For me 'Thank You'. This word has a very deep meaning.

— Yunho

Little things like that when you go to another country is so welcoming. You meet someone, they're so jolly, they speak the…

— Oliver Burke

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would…

— Edward Hirsch

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it,…

— Joy Harjo

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…

— George Steiner

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really believe amendment " to make English our common and unifying language" is racist. I think it's directed basically to people…

— Ruben Aguilar

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish…

— Tamlyn Tomita

I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there…

— Greg Boyle

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter,…

— Joshua Foer

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some…

— Robert Gottlieb

“The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the…

— Jacques Barzun

Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens…

— Peter Norvig

A horse, you know, they can't say, 'Hi? How are you? I'm so-and-so,' you know? So they communicate through typically smelling or,…

— Brady Jandreau

My word is dark and I need to you come and light it up.

— Romeo Harris

I like to express myself fully with my body, with my language, with my voice, and through directing.

— Nadine Labaki

A word can change so much depending on how you say it, or how you sing it.

— Lights

“He seemed as oblivious to it as he probably was to the meaning of the word.”

— Melody Malone

“Grace softened a little. "Sorry. But they're just words. They don't mean anything.”

— Krystal Sutherland

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

— Debbie Millman

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

— Kingsley Amis

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

— Charles Stross

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

— Jordan Peterson

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

— Maggie Stiefvater

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness

— Michel Foucault

“Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.”

— Paul Auster

You can hear me starting to stutter and slur my words.

— Mark Hunt

“The Infinite struck the void with the sound of the Word.”

— Marek Halter

...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

— Vladimir Nabokov

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

— Eugene Delacroix