Language Quotes · Page 190

“...the opacity of a numeration system takes an important toll on language acquisition.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

“Language is a code that I manipulate, to deny others' dominion over me" - Todd Brendan Fahey”

— Todd Brendan Fahey

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches.

— Sarah MacLean

As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

— Taiye Selasi

Is there a word, for the things there aren't words for?

— Protoxus

“Do you only speak in questions?" "Do you only speak in SAT words?”

— Megan Erickson

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.

— T. S. Eliot

“I tried to talk like them, cursing and cussing, mutilating the English language into a slang that I could barely stand nor…

— Carol Wambui Ngabura

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

— Aimee Bender

As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say…

— Masiela Lusha

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

— Patrice Leconte

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is…

— Leigh Hunt

On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.

— Zal Batmanglij

Comedians want honest discussion because it affects us. We make our living talking, so anything around language affects us greatly.

— Jim Norton

What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many…

— Pete La Roca

“As the chant grew in volume she began to be conscious of the terrible potency of language, the sense that a name…

— Jan Siegel

[Everybody Loves Somebody] one really loves both cultures, represents them in a very accurate, genuine, authentic, fun, fresh way, and it includes…

— Karla Souza

When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:…

— Zadie Smith

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which…

— Helen Barrett Montgomery

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting.…

— Ang Lee

Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences,…

— Thomas Jefferson

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Words, Isobel, have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being. Remember that.”

— Kelly Creagh

Music is just another language, but it's very special because it crosses everyone's borders.

— Jacob Collier

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

— Gates McFadden

“There are just some feelings, I’ve learned, for which we never invented the right words.”

— Jodi Picoult

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

— Peter Fonda

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

— Helen Fisher

“Words are funny things - They are free until you use them.”

— Darlenne Susan Girard

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

— Sarah Jio

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

— Anthony Doerr

“I'm sure I'll have more to say about the penis word.”

— John Irving

Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

— Anonymous

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

— Laura Dave

“To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite.”

— C.J. Ducasse