Language Quotes · Page 238

That's big to be able to speak another language on the court.

— Evan Fournier

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

— Pamela Anderson

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

— John Birmingham

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

— Anonymous

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

— Brooks Atkinson

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

— Tony Judt

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

— Michael Showalter

“You can be the greatest at stringing words together but if you don’t mean what you say your words will not live…

— Jason E. Hodges

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of…

— Sally Lloyd-Jones

Music came first and I started to jam with people I couldn't communicate in their language. Then, because I could make friends…

— Hiromi

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see…

— Plato

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

— Muriel Spark

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books,…

— Judy Holliday

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

— Peter Farb

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

— Peter Mayhew

You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of…

— William Zinsser

As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal…

— Thomas Szasz

“I imagined I had discovered a new word. I rise up in bed and say, "It is not in the language; I…

— Knut Hamsun

I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it…

— Jack Dorsey

“It was the language that left us first. The Great Migration of words. When people spoke they punched each other in the…

— Anonymous

James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he…

— Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and…

— Kerry James Marshall

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

— Henri Nouwen

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

— Margaret Atwood

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

— Ambrose Bierce

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

— Eavan Boland

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

— Jess Phillips

Can't shouldn't be in a mans vocabulary, because when a man says can't he ain't a man.

— Anonymous

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

— Thomas Keating

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

— Martha Graham

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath israrely found.

— Alexander Pope

Music don't have no color or no face. It's a universal language.

— Pimp C

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

— Antonin Artaud

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

— Carl Sandburg

Words matter. Especially if you're kicking someone's ass in words with friends.

— Bob Saget