Language Quotes · Page 247

Love is love. There is no word to describe it. All I know is you have something to do with it

— Benjamin

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

— Mae West

Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

— Ed Markey

I don't pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.

— Angela Rayner

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

— Edgar Allan Poe

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

— Virginia Woolf

“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”

— Algernon Blackwood

“Every time I do something for you, I’m trying to demonstrate the words I cannot say.”

— Sylvain Reynard

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

— Steven Pinker

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a…

— Donna Leon

They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in…

— Anonymous

“After I speak, my words merge with the wind, and if you’re listening, your ears act like sails and carry the conversation.”

— Jarod Kintz

“More Latin?” I was going to need a fucking guidebook to keep track of a language I thought was as dead as…

— T.J. Klune

Where two nations are gonna have a summit and a joint agreement's gonna be announced, the joint agreement and the language is…

— Rush Limbaugh

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And…

— Charlotte Gray

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will…

— Jacques Chirac

The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and…

— Paul Valery

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a…

— William Stafford

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment…

— Elie Wiesel

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what…

— Walter Martin

There,” she said triumphantly. “Like that.” He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. “Like what?” “That! What you…

— Julia Quinn

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken,…

— Margaret George

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life.…

— Stephen Covey

“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the…

— Darryl Marks

Your body language is different when you're wearing the best cleats on the field.

— Carlos Correa

“It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”

— Andrew Jackson

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

— Paul Auster

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

— Tom Malinowski

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

— James Howell

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

— Mother Teresa

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

— George Eliot

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

— Dane Rudhyar

“The other day, I tried to remember what was the word for ‘dragonfly’ and couldn’t.”

— Donna Tartt

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

— Charlotte Forten Grimke

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

— Antonio Banderas

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

— Thomas Leonard

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

— Terry Eagleton

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

— Samuel R. Delany