Language Quotes · Page 183

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

— Emile M. Cioran

These are lies, there is not a word of truth in them.

— Richard Perle

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

— Lisel Mueller

“There are moments in life, when just the right words, can be as powerful as acts.”

— José N. Harris

There are only four words that so much better than I love you, and those words are Im here for you.

— Anonymous

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

— Elie Wiesel

Luckily I just know how to string two words together.

— Dylan Alcott

Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk.

— Pamela Druckerman

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

— Richard P. Feynman

I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went…

— Mark Nepo

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid…

— George Bernard Shaw

Wherever I go, I have to speak English, which is my second language. So whenever you get a chance to speak in…

— Ivica Zubac

“Consciousness is reflected in the word like the sun in a drop of water. Lev Vygotsky--Thought and Language”

— Vygotsky

Words aren't hurting anybody. Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly. But we're so focused on the words.

— Rush Limbaugh

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

“Today most of us speak, think and dream in imperial languages that were forced upon our ancestors by the sword.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I'm German! Actually, I love my countr, ;I love the language. The German language is very special because it is so precise.…

— Sebastian Koch

I have this theory that the more important and intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required to express it. For instance…

— J. Michael Straczynski

. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but…

— Barbara Sher

“From incoherent barkings of desire, man can advance to distinct speech now that, labelling the object with a name, he is able…

— Georges Bataille

Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new…

— Kyo Maclear

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code…

— Tony Hoare

You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

— Joel Osteen

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

— Abigail Adams

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

— Andrew Johnson

Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.

— Gosho Aoyama

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

— Wilfrid Laurier

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

— Wole Soyinka

“It's like he knows everything. And I don't have to say a word.”

— Hannah Harrington

The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

— Nicky Gumbel

“It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way.”

— David Foster Wallace

Even though the language is different, the music is the same.

— Kim Jong In

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

— Robert Morgan

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

— William Wordsworth

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“the most important word in the language has but two letters: is. Is.”

— Clarice Lispector

Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.

— Egon Friedell

Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.

— Norman Vincent Peale