Language Quotes · Page 260

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then multi-media is an entire lexicon.

— Alfred Baijan Rasho

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

— John Grant

I am not a word, I am not a line and I definitely not a girl that can ever be defined

— Ciara Young

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

— Bjarne Stroustrup

If, in English, we speak words, the French speak thoughts.

— Peter Brook

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.

— Joaquin Andujar

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

— Jack Canfield

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not…

— Christie Watson

There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be…

— Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can…

— Meister Eckhart

“The word may be mightier than the sword, but except for the s they are pretty much the same. Both are used…

— Linda Stasi

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign…

— Morgan Freeman

“However, though we may never achieve perfect transparency, we can limit the impact of personal bias upon the process of interpretation by…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

— David Levithan

“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies…

— Amy Tan

Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker…

— Cynthia Ozick

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised -…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men…

— Terence McKenna

“A good writer is likely to know and use, or find out and use, the words for common architectural features, like "lintel,"…

— John Gardner

I believe the principles and techniques in this book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, can literally change the world, but more…

— Jack Canfield

I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly…

— Mark Twain

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.”

— Ralph Ellison

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

— Anonymous

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

— Phyllis McGinley

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.

— Paris Hilton

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

— Ovid

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.

— Patti LuPone

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

— Charles Spurgeon

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

— Anne Sullivan Macy

“The limits of my language are the limits of my universe”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world.”

— Tom Kane

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

— Edwidge Danticat

“Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

— Samuel Johnson

“Amorite ... it is the oldest Northwest Semitic language yet discovered.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

— Dar Williams

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

— Robert Morley