Language Quotes · Page 219

I love to be a part of movies, irrespective of the cultural and language barriers.

— Atul Kulkarni

“Every single line that you write, you hang on every single word, and you hang on every single moment.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I'm always very keen to learn a skill or a language for my films.

— Shweta Tripathi

“African languages one third of all the languages of the world,”

— Thomas Sowell

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Is there a word for being emptier than empty?  That’s what I am.”

— Kasey Millstead

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

— Charlie Trotter

Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a…

— Frederick Lenz

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

— Maajid Nawaz

The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of…

— Robin DiAngelo

I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really…

— Floor Jansen

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than…

— B. F. Skinner

“There are five language-sets in particular which they employed for this purpose. Briefly, they are as follows: Wisdom, Torah, Spirit, Word and…

— N.T. Wright

“She looks like there are no words inside her at all, like language has taken a vacation from her life and left…

— Meredith Miller

“For quite a while, Francie had been spelling out letters, sounding them and then putting the sounds together to mean a word.…

— Betty Smith

When I tour with a band, things get more unconscious and more automatic as the tour goes on. Music has to be…

— John Vanderslice

This might disappoint you somewhat, but I have to say my interest in Tolkien has faded dramatically over the years. His language…

— Varg Vikernes

Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Every phrase had to be captured on paper or it wasn't real, it slipped away. I'd see the words hanging in midair--Camille,…

— Gillian Flynn

We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Language allows us to represent autobiographical events in the past, present and future; we can imagine events that have not yet happened,…

— Jacqui Stedmon

“March 18...[1945] Brief morning reflection arisen from great love. In fact, the main point after all is that for forty years we…

— Victor Klemperer

It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.

— Dan Levy

“Like golden apples in silver settings are words spoken at the proper time.”

— Proverbs 25 11

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

— Ram Dass

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

— John Banville

Diphthongs are indicated by combinations of hooks and circles.

— John Robert Gregg

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

— Ernest Hemingway

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

— Stephen King

Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.

— Rumi

The language may be different, but the understanding is always the sam

— Kwesi Darko

Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.

— Mason Cooley

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them ...

— Hart Crane

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

— Werner Heisenberg

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

— Susie Dent

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.” GOETHE”

— Charles M. Sevilla

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

— Luis von Ahn

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

— Sigmund Freud