Language Quotes · Page 216

I just see myself as someone who has a bit of a way with words, basically.

— Tim Minchin

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.

— Hannibal

I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now.

— Peter Pace

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

— Grant Morrison

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

— Charles Handy

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

— Fred Melamed

I have the impression that every word is a word too many. I'm constantly holding myself back.

— Brigitte Macron

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

— Thomas Carlyle

“One spring patio is for rodeos niggled with iodine figures, weaved tapestries inside vast Tuileries. But that reminds me, how exactly do…

— Adam Fitzgerald

The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a…

— David Crystal

“It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember…

— Jakub Marian

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle…

— Salman Rushdie

“Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.

— Stuart Hall

Hey people that interject big words. Good grammar and vocabulary is important, but give me a break...I'm too lazy for word searching.

— Anonymous

You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather…

— David Crystal

His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“If extra-linguistic reality (R1) secures a determinate meaning (R3) which can then be perfectly translated, then language is R5 Passive; it does…

— Lee Braver

I once volunteered to teach English as a second language, and I thought that I would have all these intense relationships with…

— Mike White

Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize…

— Oliver Sacks

When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians…

— Nizar Qabbani

Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea…

— Isabel Allende

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect

— Paul Muldoon

“I discovered that words are alchemy, that words really can save us.”

— Sarah Combs

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

— Jacques Barzun

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

— Jacques Le Blanc

“If you believe what you say, words become reality.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

He is as good as his word - and his word is no good.

— Seumas MacManus

“All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past”

— Jorge Luis Borges

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

— William Saroyan

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

— Emily Carr

A person is master to those words they don't say, and slave to the ones they do.

— John Reyes

“Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.”

— Brian Holguin

Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.

— Maria V. Snyder

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

— Steven Wright

It is always a pleasure to work with a Malayali crew, regardless of the language of the movie.

— Atul Kulkarni

“Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Something that you don't like to hear better just let it be, if not the words will comes to you again.

— Anonymous