Language Quotes · Page 192

A person who thinks yelling words such as 'yaaaah! 'oooooh' 'meeeeee' and 'boooooooo' are hard work.

— Soulja Boy

“Music is a language that speaks to people emotions.”

— The Unknown

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

— Lauren Oliver

. and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learnd the language of another world

— Lord Byron

The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.

— Paul Watson

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

— George Bancroft

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

— Bertrand Russell

Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent…

— Ellen Goodman

Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?

— Pablo Neruda

“They should never be used together in a sentence, because they speak of something that’s beyond your ability to change. A waste…

— Harper Bliss

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the…

— May Sarton

“By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce…

— Margaret Atwood

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart…

— William Shakespeare

In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he…

— Vladimir Kramnik

In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew…

— Jamaal Bowman

State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition…

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you…

— Idries Shah

“Words are words. People add meaning to words. Information is information. With words people add value to information. Words breathe life into…

— John R. Dallas Jr

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception…

— Dan Simmons

Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is…

— Kim Hyesoon

Let there be no limit to what we take to God in prayer, so that there may be no limit to God's…

— S. D Gordon

Most jokes are based on surprise. They take advantage of a confusion of language, or a twist in logic, or a contradiction…

— Richard Herring

My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

— Ernest Hemingway

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Vielleicht ist es so, dass nur das, was nicht ausgesprochen worden ist, durchlebt werden muss.”

— J. M. Coetzee

“Talking, talking, spinning like a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin.”

— John Gardner

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

— Umberto Eco

“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

— Howard Hodgkin

“...'good writing' means compelling ideas clothed in words.”

— Betsey Lerner

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

— Anais Nin

You need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

— Frank Luntz

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

— Edward Gibbon

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

— Bruce Lee

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

— Ani DiFranco

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

— Thomas Paine

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

— Mary Wortley Montagu