Language Quotes · Page 24

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

— Charles Bukowski

Positive is the word, let's be the description!

— Brittney Francis

Love isn't a word, it's a feeling

— Hanne

I can understand bitchiness in any language.

— Richelle Mead

What I try to do is find a language for life.

— Pina Bausch

“Yet I had such joy from the words.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

'Credit' is another word for trustworthiness.

— Robert Kiyosaki

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

— Chris Crutcher

God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how.

— John Alexander Dowie

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

— Douglas Crockford

The name of a person you love is more than language.

— Tennessee Williams

Lyrically,the reason why people double date is because it has two D's. LOL Quotemewrong.

— Shappy Song

“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

— Winston S. Churchill

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

— Marshall McLuhan

I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.

— John Burnside

“Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.”

— Ray Monk

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

— Umberto Eco

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

— Richard Scarry

If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language... the unity of India has been and shall…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Banning words and subject matters for fear of upsetting people runs the risk of stifling conversation and halting social progress.

— Adam Pearson

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction…

— Saul Zaentz

“HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper? MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on…

— George Bernard Shaw

First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that…

— Astra Taylor

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,…

— Lord Chesterfield

Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor…

— Valeria Luiselli

Our lifestyle, language, attitudes, and manner of dress reflect on His name. He leads us in paths of righteousness for His name's…

— Curtis Hutson

People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker,…

— Dax Shepard

The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the…

— Henry Giroux

And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon…

— Thomas Hobbes

“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from…

— Natasha Pulley

When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with…

— Brenda Laurel

Word to God, we murderers.

— Ja Rule

God doesn't need verbal language for communication.

— Mary C. Neal

Often a silent face has voice and words.

— Ovid

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

— Mary Oliver

“When it's perfect there are no more words.”

— Bert McCoy

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

— Arnold Bennett

“It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Empathy is even better than talking in one language

— Rumi