Language Quotes · Page 194

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

— Gertrude Stein

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“Thoughts never require the touch of words to be expressed”

— Sushmita S Das

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

— Charlie Chaplin

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

— Norman Cousins

“Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.”

— Sister Souljah

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.”

— Pat Conroy

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

“When the word turns into a body And the body opens its mouth And speaks the word from which It was created—…

— Chezi Laskly

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language

— Paul Muldoon

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

— William Bennett

When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and…

— Cate Blanchett

“Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

It is not weather your words or action are tough or gentle,it is the spirit behind your actions and words announces yous…

— Nix

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress,…

— Ian Mcewan

Perhaps no man is an island, but every man and woman is a nation unto herself. I actually had to look up…

— Sabina Murray

The hypothesis I wish to advance is thatthe language of morality is ingrave disorder… What we possess, if this is true, are…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

I don't think I'm modest so much as I'm realistic. I know what I can do and what I can't do. I…

— David Sanborn

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working…

— Edmundo Desnoes

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there…

— Gertrude Stein

“Words are powerful things. They can start—or end—wars. People believe in words. They are the fundamental expression of ourselves, the division between…

— Beth Revis

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The…

— Steve Carell

Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.

— Greg Behrendt

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

— Evelyn Underhill

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

— Alessandro Michele

Language because of our deep inner need to complain…

— Jane Wagner

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

— Thomas Shadwell

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

— Patricia McCormick

I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'

— Ben Weaver

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

— Robert Nozick

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

— Phil Collins

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

— Benjamin Jowett

You dont need to say a word; your eyes hold all the warmth and courage I need.

— Destiny Dreams

“They are conversation-openers in the arcane femine language of Shoe.”

— Claire Cross

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.”

— George R.R. Martin

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

— Sho Baraka