Language Quotes · Page 221

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Florence Welch

“Trying to take away someone’s language is usually the first step in trying to change them.”

— C. N. Lester

The power of words can repair all that I've destroyed.

— Anonymous

“He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything.”

— Anonymous

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

— Robert Breault

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi…

— Jack Lynch

As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks…

— Aaron Siskind

Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward…

— Bernard Cornwell

For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language…

— Philip Kitcher

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement... I'm a…

— Daniel Logan

“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I…

— Gabor Maté

“Words are things. A small drip of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps even millions.”

— Bryon

I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one…

— Dylan Thomas

What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the…

— Robert Musil

“To put it another way, language is a tool box and swearing is a hammer. You can try to pound a nail…

— Melissa Mohr

To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot,…

— Lydia Davis

Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories…

— Chiara Barzini

“. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving within the trees—then, fleeting words of consolation would not suffice if feigned,…

— John Daniel Thieme

The child is born speaking the languages of birds; the child has horns and scales and wings; it has a beak; it…

— Rikki Ducornet

Linguists have noticed that across the history of language some words start out as obvious, conscious metaphors and then slowly embed themselves…

— Michael Rosen

Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

— Anonymous

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

— Robert Stack

Whatever has been voted the most annoying word in the world for 3 years in a row.

— Unknow

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

— Gloria Steinem

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.

— Tony Robbins

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

— Anonymous

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

— Chinua Achebe

I've learned to say Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke in 6 languages.

— Nikhil Saluja

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

— Mahmoud Darwish

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

— Joseph Brodsky

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.

— Paul Stamets

Style is the way we speak to the world without words.

— Bobbie Thomas

“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed.”

— Paulo Coelho

Meaningless silent is always better than meaningless words.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.”

— Sylvan Barnet

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

— Claire Denis