Language Quotes · Page 191

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

— Toni Morrison

“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”

— Cameron Conaway

People never think about words, they only feel them.

— Han Suyin

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same.”

— Mykyta Isagulov

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

— Edward Steichen

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

— Michel de Montaigne

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.

— Richard P. Feynman

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative…

— Edith Hamilton

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting…

— Samuel R. Delany

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North…

— William Labov

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages,…

— Steven Levy

The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new…

— James Frey

“Words are ways we add up breath, counting stress and syllable with our exacting musical knack that takes us farther and farther…

— Rumi

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

— Peter Norvig

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

Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even…

— Edward Snowden

In Dortmund we had many players from abroad and when you want to put your thoughts in their heads, for example with…

— Daniel Farke

There are three little words that I really want to say, one them is a letter but yet such a big word…

— Kade Burgess

“In the future, I hope you'll remember to think before you speak. You can't take back hurtful words after they've been spoken.…

— Judith McCoy Miller

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well,…

— David Remnick

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella,…

— Pico Iyer

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad…

— Martin Rees

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by…

— N. K. Jemisin

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.

— Anonymous

“Words can build us up and tear us down in an instant.”

— Sharlene Simone Alexander

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

— Howard Rheingold

“Gain a language and you gain a second lens through which to question and understand the world.”

— Timothy Ferriss

Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.

— Michel de Montaigne

I say bad words to express my feelings, not to tell that I'm a bad person.

— Anonymous

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

“You, however, will know that this magic consists of 3 words: details, dialogue and conflict.”

— Andrii Sedniev

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

— Brian H. Hook

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?

— Neale Donald Walsch

Music is the universal language; it is the soundtrack to our existence.

— Melody Gardot

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

— Shelby Foote