Language Quotes · Page 212

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

— Jules Renard

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

— G. E. M. Anscombe

MARRIAGE, A word which always means commitment -- but so does insanity;

— Nikhil Saluja

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

— George Henry Lewes

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

— Jerry Garcia

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

— David Mitchell

We need to get the word 'normal' out of our vocabulary.

— Eddie Kingston

“Pretty words," Brooke said, dropping her arms so they laid limply at her sides. "But even the prettiest song can lose its…

— Heather C. Myers

“When words failed I realized there was something unspeakably beautiful in not being able to put words to your happiness.”

— R. YS Perez

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually…

— Branford Marsalis

“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.”

— Alexander Theroux

“Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words...leave people tone deaf.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

“I want my words to illuminate like the sun, as I give my daily lecture on photosynthesis to my houseplants.”

— Jarod Kintz

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the…

— Nietzsche

“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye…

— Joe Bolton

“This book has two determinants: on the one hand, an ideological critique of the language of so-called mass culture; on the other,…

— Roland Barthes

I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was.…

— Stephen Karam

“Immediately on my arrival at the Project I began studying linguistics, because that seemed imperative to me. I was soon amazed to…

— Stanisław Lem

The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers…

— Noam Chomsky

Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and…

— Jaimy Gordon

The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification…

— Joseph H. Greenberg

“How, then, does the written word work? What part of a reader absorbs it - or should that be a double question:…

— Diana Athill

I do feel that scripts get developed now to a point where they're sort of actor-proof. If the actor is not very…

— Paul Bettany

How can you believe on the word believe, when there is a lie in center ?

— Ritu Ghatourey

Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.

— LeCrae

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

— Peter Abelard

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

— Barbara Tuchman

“About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.”

— Lauren Willig

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

— Liza Donnelly

If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

— William Shakespeare

Life is like a song, you don't know the words right away, you have to learn them as you go along.

— Melchor Lim

“So much to say, but no words strong enough to clear the air between us.”

— J.M. Darhower

I'm happy to do good roles, irrespective of language.

— Pranitha Subhash

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

— Terri Windling

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

— Jonathan Swift

Think before you speak, words can hurt and once it's been said, you can never take it back.

— The Forgotten

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

— Diane Ackerman

“Acceptance” is the most beautiful word in the English language.”

— David W Earle

We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.

— William C. Brown