Language Quotes · Page 242

“The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything.”

— Walt Whitman

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.

— Terry Crowley

The German language is the organ among the languages.

— Jean Paul

It's really deep with incredible lyrics. That's why I decided to call the album 'Words.'

— Sara Evans

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

— Aimee Bender

If your haters 'words' can bring you down you've given them too much power over you.

— SONYA PARKER

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

— Samuel Johnson

I think people take the word 'feminist' really seriously, and I think people are scared to use that word.

— Rita Ora

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

— Etgar Keret

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

— Robert Creeley

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than…

— James D. Houston

I think a lot about writing and I try to read a lot. Being a musician, I don't take the words lightly;…

— Steve Gunn

“Words are small things. No one means any harm by them, they keep saying that. ... Words are not small things".”

— Fredrik Backman

The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom,…

— Alex Scally

“Words wield power, both divine and mortal. We might think of the comparison of the power of words like this: God’s words…

— Beth Moore

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel…

— William Osler

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference…

— Joseph Brodsky

“I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a time…

— Sterling Lord

“Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the…

— Vashti Quiroz-Vega

Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us.…

— Jacques Rogge

We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the…

— David St. John

My brother, if it's not in the Bible, He's not in it!! If it's not in the Word of God, He is…

— Benny Hinn

When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

— Robert Herrick

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.

— William J. Mitchell

“Poetry unlocks that unseen world and that unheard language to the real world.”

— Euginia Herlihy

It's good to see your songs breaking the barriers of language.

— Anirudh Ravichander

“The words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”

— Sarah Dessen

Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.

— David Crystal

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE”

— Tom Robbins

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

— I. A. Richards

“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.”

— Sharon Olds

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

— Elif Batuman

Actions speak louder than words you speak less and act more!

— Neacygirl

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

— Thomas Kinkade

“Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.”

— William Chapman

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

— Victor Hugo