Language Quotes · Page 187

Peoples words affect you only as much as you let them.

— Ritu

“A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.”

— Bernard Bloch and George L Trager

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.

— Richard Armitage

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

— Quintilian

“Tell me something in your native woodland language.”

— Marta Acosta

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

— Bill Hicks

Be always true to your values, your word, and your friend.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just…

— Maya Angelou

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in…

— Kate DiCamillo

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a…

— Leonard Cohen

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and…

— Wynona Mulcaster

Words matter, particularly when you're writing a story that could significantly damage a person's or an organization's reputation.

— Jason Whitlock

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and…

— Jennifer Donnelly

And while blood's the only language that your deaf old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message…

— Harry Chapin

I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl's…

— Sriti Jha

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at…

— Thomas Hobbes

“I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a…

— Nicola Haken

It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of…

— Raphael Lemkin

“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using…

— Andrew Dalby

This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to…

— Gaston Bachelard

Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.

— Homer

Words are not enough to express how much I love you.

— Janelle J

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

— Ellen Glasgow

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

— Rick Riordan

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

— Anonymous

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

— Rob Pike

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

— Christopher Fry

To strive and persevere in Gods word is to show you are thankful for Jesuses pain and tears.

— Paul Meeks

I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.

— Larry King

“Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone”

— Paulo Freire

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

When she say the word ''I Love You'' was it meant for ''You'' or someone beside ''You''???

— Fyco

“words can become truth if enough people speak them!”

— brian keith jackson

In film lyrics, I avoid Persianised words because they are not widely understood.

— Gulzar

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

— Mary Oliver

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

— Edwin Newman