Language Quotes · Page 224

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

— Brian H. Hook

“You, however, will know that this magic consists of 3 words: details, dialogue and conflict.”

— Andrii Sedniev

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

Music is the universal language; it is the soundtrack to our existence.

— Melody Gardot

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?

— Neale Donald Walsch

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No matter what language you speak, music can relate to you in some way, and when that 'Tip Toe' beat drops, it…

— Jason Derulo

“I wondered how it was possible I had found words out there in the world but could lose them in the house…

— Sue Monk Kidd

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

— Walter Kirn

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

— Edward Sapir

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Your feelings are your signals of deep truths inside of you. They're the language of your soul, and they need you to…

— Doreen Virtue

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as…

— Mark Twain

“THE BEST word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They are the ones who could climb the…

— Markus Zusak

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if…

— Paulo Freire

Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator…"I have two like crimes. Your data and your…

— Anonymous

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and…

— Albert Einstein

“The ones I got are all right,’ Jane said; ‘I know they are, because the man at the shop said they were…

— E. Nesbit

“We writers aren't sculpting in DNA, or even clay or mud, but words, sentences, paragraphs, syntax, voice; materials issued by tongue or…

— Jonathan Lethem

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The…

— George Steiner

It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of…

— Trevor Paglen

I had been used to improvising and even in the audition I was feeling free to rearrange Aaron Sorkin words a little…

— Richard Schiff

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A person who thinks yelling words such as 'yaaaah! 'oooooh' 'meeeeee' and 'boooooooo' are hard work.

— Soulja Boy

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

— Shelby Foote

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

— Lauren Oliver

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

— Robert Fitzgerald

“Music is a language that speaks to people emotions.”

— The Unknown

. and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learnd the language of another world

— Lord Byron

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

— George Bancroft

The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.

— Paul Watson

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

— Ernest Hemingway

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

— Bertrand Russell

“Vielleicht ist es so, dass nur das, was nicht ausgesprochen worden ist, durchlebt werden muss.”

— J. M. Coetzee

“Talking, talking, spinning like a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin.”

— John Gardner

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

— Howard Hodgkin

“That statues are motionless would be true only if the earth were the universe.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana