Language Quotes · Page 196

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

— Marilyn vos Savant

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

— Al Capone

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Words are sometimes great explorers,traveling to destinations that the feet are not able to follow.”

— Robert Wolpe

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

— Winston Churchill

Language is so important to the Irish, almost regardless of education.

— Jessie Buckley

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

— Stanley Kunitz

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words

— Corey Ford

“His words are the air I breathe. The fluid that hydrates me. The food that nourishes me. They're everything giving me everything…

— Nyrae Dawn

We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony…

— Thomas Sowell

“Although Pirahã nouns are simple, Pirahã verbs are much more complicated. Each verb can have as many as sixteen suffixes—that is, up…

— Daniel L. Everett

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in…

— Radclyffe Hall

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

— Charles II of England

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language.…

— Mark Ryden

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common…

— Ernest Istook

Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of…

— Roland Merullo

“Learning a language happens in stages, and the first breakthrough is a limited understanding. Somehow the words began to make sense; I…

— Vicki Archer

The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the…

— Kató Lomb

“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would…

— Steve Whitmire

I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was…

— Andrew Lam

Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence…

— Constance Hale

“Back in New York I took full advantage of my status as a native speaker. I ran my mouth to shop clerks…

— David Sedaris

“common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.”

— Kate Atkinson

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

— Igor Babailov

“[...] words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [...]”

— Jonathan Coe

“When words amount to nothing, Kindness is everything.”

— Joanna Alamo

“Spirituality has a language of it's own and some people haven't learned to speak it.”

— Shannon L. Alder

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

— Florence Welch

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

— RuPaul

“A picture paints a thousand words, a thousand poorly chosen words.”

— S.E. Toon

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

— Allen Sapp

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

— Grenville Kleiser

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

— Gustave Le Bon

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

— Joanne Harris

He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.

— Dante Alighieri

You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.

— Joss Whedon