Language Quotes · Page 241

The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

— Ronald Reagan

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

— Rick Renzi

It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is MUCH BETTER for the Word to get into us.

— David J. Stewart

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

— Learned Hand

“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.”

— Dorothy Parker

“Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.”

— Suzette Haden Elgin

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

— George Clinton

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.”

— Carlos Fuentes

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words,…

— Paul Valery

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language.

— Vint Cerf

“He offered a better paraphrase one day when I was complaining about an entry: “Words are stubborn little fuckers.”

— Kory Stamper

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not…

— Fredrik Franson

“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things…

— Gloria Steinem Lynn Gilbert

“A great word becomes a great sentence with great meaning from great writers who have a great imagination and who enchant greatness”

— Mark Peter Evans

“there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I…

— Kate Bush

“A person who does not read, or reads little, or reads only trash, is a person with an impediment: he can speak…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu…

— Sam Hamill

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or…

— Sherman Alexie

“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature 'adding to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty,…

— Maggie Nelson

It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

If anything, I'm overacting in the ring because of the facials and the body language. I want the guy in the cheap…

— Randy Orton

The Eucharist is the life of the people. The Eucharist gives them a center of life. All can come together without the…

— Peter Julian Eymard

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

— Sophie Swetchine

Friends: a seven letter word that I couldnt live seven seconds without.

— Narenkumar

I love these articles. How many words can a wosrmdtih smith?

— Betsy

In love, eyes declare everything words can not express

— Juju

“This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language. It’s”

— Yuval Noah Harari

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

— Stephen Fry

My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

— Edward Gibbon

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

— Adrienne Rich

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

— Will Smith

Once a story is set to a particular city, language and culture, the rest just follows.

— Rockline Venkatesh

“Perfect. There’s the word again: a locked-door word – stifling, strangling.”

— Lauren Oliver

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

— Kató Lomb

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

— George Eliot

In love... the heart got a language, the eyes got dreams and life got its meaning

— Anonymous