Language Quotes · Page 248

“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…”

— Daniel S. Fletcher

“A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.”

— Sara Sheridan

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

— Oscar Wilde

If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.

— N. Scott Momaday

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

— E. M. Forster

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it.

— Peter Kindersley

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

— Spyridon Marinatos

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

— Lucas Grabeel

“We're not words, Henry, we're people. Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the…

— Kim Jong Il

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“We would never ask a hearing student to comprehend a lecture in Mandarin if he or she did not have proficiency in…

— Christine Monikowski

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the…

— David Keating

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into…

— Dana Scott

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to…

— Horace

It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for…

— Camilo Jose Cela

“When a child says, “Mr. Roberson, how do you spell this word? What does that word mean?” I’ll look tortured. “Oh,” I’ll…

— Doug Robertson

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of…

— Anonymous

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane,…

— Roger Ebert

over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be…

— May Sarton

“I caution against communication because once language exist only to convey information, it is dying. In news articles the relation of the…

— Richard Hugo

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things…

— Samuel Johnson

Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

— Ellen G. White

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

— Andy Rooney

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

— Dorothy Day

Never let the words of anyone affect and stop you from doing what you want to do.

— Anonymous

“Which is the least spoken language, world-wide? The language of Truth”

— Haritha Velpureddy

I don't like the word 'because' BECAUSE it is often followed by unconvincing explanation .

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

— Walt Disney

My words are useless if you are not learning from it.

— Nishan Panwar

“No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, ’Unwrap me, darling.”

— James Lusarde

“Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people.”

— Haruki Murakami

The words left unspoken always seem to carry the most weight.

— Anonymous

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.

— Dejan Stojanovic

It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return.

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

— Lily Tomlin

“This revolution will be noted. It will be successful and above all, it will be in words.”

— Moonshine Noire