Language Quotes · Page 223

“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.”

— George R.R. Martin

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

— Bill Cosby

Words are easy to say but hard to express in action..

— Anonymous

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

— Anthony Doerr

“I'm sure I'll have more to say about the penis word.”

— John Irving

Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

— Anonymous

I remain infinite, my words unlimited; whether in prison or at home, by letter or phone my words will travel to others…

— Anonymous

“I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by…

— Gregory Maguire

Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty…

— Alexandra David-Neel

“The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in… He now knows that the only words…

— Andreï Makine

I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute…

— Alice Oswald

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we…

— J. G. Ballard

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some…

— Diane Chamberlain

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

— Tanya Tucker

I've been dealing with pressure all life long. Coming from a very poor family in Haiti, moving to Paris, a new place,…

— Jimmy Jean-Louis

They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our…

— Chrystos

“You think that the things that matter are more difficult than words - to retreat from a confrontation, for instance, to work…

— Madeleine Thien

Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she…

— Ally Carter

[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear…

— Tyler Burge

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it…

— John Ruskin

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of…

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

Today we take it for granted that the Bible is in our language. We forget that the Bible used to not be…

— Steve Green

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

— Laura Dave

“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”

— Cameron Conaway

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

— Toni Morrison

“To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite.”

— C.J. Ducasse

People never think about words, they only feel them.

— Han Suyin

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same.”

— Mykyta Isagulov

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

— Michel de Montaigne

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.

— Richard P. Feynman

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

— Edward Steichen

“Gain a language and you gain a second lens through which to question and understand the world.”

— Timothy Ferriss

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

— Howard Rheingold

“Words can build us up and tear us down in an instant.”

— Sharlene Simone Alexander

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.

— Anonymous

I say bad words to express my feelings, not to tell that I'm a bad person.

— Anonymous

Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.

— Michel de Montaigne