Language Quotes · Page 252

In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream."

— Michael Glawogger

When I went to Germany, all I knew were German swear words.

— Son Heung-min

“Words are the bones. Writing is the lungs. Reading is like breathing.”

— T.L. Crain

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

— Stephen King

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

— Erica Jong

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

— George Saunders

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

— Joe Hill

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

— Thomas Jefferson

When you don't know how to pronounce words, when you don't know the meaning of the words, how will you imbibe a…

— Asha Bhosle

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct…

— Bertrand Meyer

The vocabulary of film is camera cuts, it's how they communicate. But games are different. We don't really need to do that.…

— Cory Barlog

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything…

— Larry Wall

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it…

— Quintilian

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

— Maryanne Wolf

The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.

— Susie Dent

With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.

— Charles Kennedy

The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this…

— Ronald Takaki

“We always think of language as an immovable object, as this set of codified and unbreakable rules. But when you consider that…

— John Green

“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,…

— Pierre Boulle

“We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to…

— Dr. Seuss

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would…

— Richard Meltzer

There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than…

— Philip K. Dick

We just need more complex, important roles that tell our experiences as an immigrant; as someone with an accent, but also American;…

— Fala Chen

All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and…

— John D. Barrow

Love is not a word you say and walk away from, if you say you love someone you stay.

— David Vigil

Music is a great communication and language can never be a barrier.

— Anonymous

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

— Maya Angelou

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

— Shepard Smith

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

— Drake

'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

— Theodore Bikel

The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.

— Lauren Oliver

More than words is all you have to do to make it real:)

— Jade

The word 'no' is not for me. I don't hear it. You always have to try again and again.

— Frank Lowy

“Listen closely. Hang on to every word. But most of all, please believe me.”

— Calia Read

“All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.”

— Woody Guthrie

“Storms. How did you describe taste? "It's like color.. you see with your mouth." [Shallan] grimaced.”

— Brandon Sanderson

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

— James Caan

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

— Anne Waldman

“Words won’t have meaning until you put your emotions into them.”

— Pratik Akkawar

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

— George Eliot