Language Quotes · Page 225

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

— Umberto Eco

“...'good writing' means compelling ideas clothed in words.”

— Betsey Lerner

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

— Ani DiFranco

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

— Bruce Lee

You need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

— Frank Luntz

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

— Edward Gibbon

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

— Anais Nin

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

— Ingrid Bengis

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of…

— Wayne Thiebaud

Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the…

— Robin Williams

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians,…

— Storm Jameson

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that…

— Paulo Coelho

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I…

— Walter Mosley

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence,…

— Andre Agassi

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable…

— William Cobbett

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics.…

— Martin Walser

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say…

— Alexei Sayle

I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my…

— Charles Spurgeon

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to…

— Brion Gysin

“... Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas... And yet, oh, and yet,…

— Stephen Fry

You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much…

— Dana Spiotta

Everybody deserves to be seen and to be heard. Regardless of whether that is your culture, your language, who you love, your…

— Melissa Leong

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

— Thomas Paine

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns...

— Lynn Steen

“I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.”

— David Malouf

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

— Anonymous

I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.

— Yolanda Hadid

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

— Brandon Sanderson

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

— Anonymous

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

— Edward Albee

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

— Olaf Stapledon

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

— Ben Marcus

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

— Mary MacLane

My word is gold, And I make sure everyone gets paid.

— Charlie Shrem

Words are like bullets. Once they are out, you can't control the damage they do.

— Anonymous

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

— apl.de.ap