Language Quotes · Page 236

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

— Dee Hock

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

— Ben Jonson

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

— Momo Hirai

Learning a new language is like tabula rasa: You're a blank page, whatever you bring me, I will learn.

— Shira Haas

“The word for 'book' in all the known languages of the earth is vallon, 'chamber of words'...”

— Sofia Samatar

Don't promise the world if you can't deliver the word.

— Anonymous

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

— Jeanette Winterson

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

— Park Won-soon

Being a musician, I truly believe that a language change cannot be a barrier for a song to penetrate new territories.

— Devi Sri Prasad

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it…

— Thomas More

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the…

— Harry S. Truman

I'd say I dream in Esperanto. Sometimes I remember some dreams in another language, but dreaming in languages no, but figures yes,…

— Pope Francis

How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

“Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.”

— Larry Herzberg

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy…

— Anonymous

If you go back a century in Europe, all over the place people were speaking different languages. There were dozens of languages…

— Noam Chomsky

The next time you watch a villain or an actor whom you know to be a non-native speaker of the language, watch…

— Chinmayi

If, in fact, one cannot understand English, and at the point in time that one comes to vote, one has to be…

— Tom Tancredo

“The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word.…

— Harriet Doerr

“[T]here is some other way of understanding and getting along with the process of nature than by translating it into words. After…

— Alan W. Watts

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,…

— Virgilia Peterson

“The author indicts "our culture's rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction" and counters with the value of "the time and attention…

— Cherie Harder

Watch what you say. Words really do hurt. Don't be a bully!

— Anonymous

“Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love.”

— Saleem Sharma

“I always misspell the word “unique,” just to keep it youneeq.”

— Jarod Kintz

Be careful how you say your words...sometimes you can never take back what was said...

— Naquitta Faith

Language' is, I think, my favorite song that I've ever written.

— Porter Robinson

“Kindness is the language that even silence can understand.”

— Marion Bekoe

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

— Joyce Meyer

Hate is a strong word, but I really, really, really dont like you.

— Alexia

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

— Evelyn Waugh

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

— George Carlin

“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.”

— Tim Minchin

“There is a little word that we can say to others now. "Thank You Very Much".”

— Marya Sy

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

— Joseph Joubert

Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

— Joanna Baillie

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

— Roger Bacon

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

— Imre Kertész