Language Quotes · Page 217

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

— Catherine Opie

“Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.”

— Emma Donoghue

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

— Antony Sher

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

— Robert Smithson

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

— Herbie Hancock

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

— Nicola Griffith

Divorce is certainly a word that is not friendly and welcome to someone.

— Mak_786

“You are still here stitched into the words on these walls.”

— Tamara Ireland Stone

It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody;…

— Denzel Washington

Sometimes people who hear you a billions word and but they still don't understand you,of who you.but the other people,they undertand you…

— Mariane Corbito

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends…

— John Dewey

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

— Rachel Cohn

Words can make you sick. Or healed. - Words create worlds because the universe is always listening... and so are your cells,…

— Danielle LaPorte

I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was…

— Bun B

The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

— Kevin Allen

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its…

— Hillary Clinton

“It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that "legends" depend on the language to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death; the walk with eyes…

— Octavio Paz

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who…

— Origen

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.…

— Eric Hoffer

As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's…

— John D. MacDonald

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses…

— Henry Giroux

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which…

— Melvin Schwartz

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.

— Jurgen Klopp

“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.”

— Ben Jonson

“Words are not important in themselves, but as resonators for a center.”

— Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

“A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin.”

— John Del Gaudio

I don't understand the words but I understand the actions

— Blacksonrap

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

— Joyce Meyer

“Kindness is not about words. It isn’t spoken. It is about action. Kindness is a deed.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

“In three words I can sum up all that I've learned about: It goes on.”

— Jessi Kirby

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

— Sarita Choudhury

There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

— Ovid

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think it is really important for everybody to have people who can speak your language.

— Timo Werner

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

— S.E. Toon

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

— RuPaul