Language Quotes · Page 245

The lngest word is smile coz it has a mile betwen the two s's

— Mohima Islam

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

— Quentin Tarantino

“I think that the law isn’t about words on paper. It’s about doing what’s right,”

— Larry Correia

“The people believed that kotodama—the soul or spirit of language—resided in every word;”

— Jake Adelstein

In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.

— Walter Bagehot

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

— William James

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by…

— Paulo Freire

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story…

— Derek Jarman

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an…

— Sugata Mitra

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club…

— Frank Smith

For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

— Garth Greenwell

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image,…

— Marlee Matlin

My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.

— Deepak Chopra

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a…

— Spencer W. Kimball

Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're…

— Jonathan Meades

Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But…

— Lauren DeStefano

“It’s my earliest memory: arranging my brother’s marbles into words. It is summer, and I am beneath the oak that stands in…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a…

— Roy Peter Clark

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of…

— Shane McCrae

“The Three Oddest Words When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that,…

— Lee Kuan Yew

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

— Alessandro Michele

“Writing is the skillful expression of feelings through the vehicle of words”

— Christian Michael

“My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.

— Andrew Breitbart

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!

— Denis Waitley

I Love Youu..3 Words..Eight Letters, And Many Meanings.<3

— Anonymous

A picture can tell a thousand words, Pbut a few words can change its story.

— Anonymous

Love love love love is the most loveing word in this world

— Jon

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

— Terry Eagleton

Everything is organic. I got the wordplay, I got the vocabulary to really, really rap.

— DaBaby

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

— Jon Gordon

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

— Stephen King

When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.

— Yance Ford

“There just aren't enough o's in the word smooth for me, are there?”

— Lani Diane Rich

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

— Francois Rabelais