Language Quotes · Page 189

If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.

— Oswald Chambers

“Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.”

— Ritesh Shrivastav

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

— Anonymous

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

— Brandon Sanderson

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

— Anonymous

I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.

— Yolanda Hadid

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

— Edward Albee

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used…

— Errol Morris

Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.

— Robert G. Allen

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another…

— Lois Lowry

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the…

— Bill Walton

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

“We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.”

— Oli Anderson

There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.

— Thurston Moore

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture…

— Wade Davis

Somebody, just because they are black, too, or just because they are trans, too, or just because they're gay and recognize I'm…

— Angelica Ross

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with…

— James Lovelock

So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the…

— Tom Cole

The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of…

— Saunders Mac Lane

One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to…

— Bill Vaughan

Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same…

— David Novak

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity,…

— Eric S. Raymond

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

— Mary MacLane

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

— Ben Marcus

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

— Olaf Stapledon

My word is gold, And I make sure everyone gets paid.

— Charlie Shrem

Words are like bullets. Once they are out, you can't control the damage they do.

— Anonymous

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

— apl.de.ap

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

— Gloria Steinem

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.

— Jim Rohn

“Language is nothing but a huge set of false analogies”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

— Anonymous

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

— Anonymous

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

— Morten Tyldum

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

“Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. ”

— Simon Van Booy

Hindi is far easier a language to pick up than Tamil.

— Amy Jackson

“Words are gifts that give to us all. Packaged songs and poems waiting to be unwrapped.”

— Calvin W. Allison