Language Quotes · Page 265

“What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.”

— Algernon Blackwood

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Getting her words first is something I'm never gonna for get ever :)

— Dimitri McByron

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

— Toni Morrison

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

— Mary Oliver

In film lyrics, I avoid Persianised words because they are not widely understood.

— Gulzar

I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

— Edwin Newman

Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.

— Scott Adams

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it,…

— Richard Bach

“primary love language was words of affirmation. He was a hard worker, and he enjoyed his work, but what he wanted most…

— Gary Chapman

“All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people…

— Mike Thompson

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of…

— Mary Ellen Chase

“Sometimes a smile, a giggle can say more than words do; words are not that articulate. And if you use words where…

— Osho

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

— Robert Breault

There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat…

— Mark Ravenhill

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are…

— Naval Ravikant

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of…

— Rebecca Solnit

Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is…

— Brit Hume

“Language, the homeland and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music,…

— Boris Pasternak

I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our…

— Jussi Lehtisalo

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

— Lisa Kleypas

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

— George Eliot

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

— Mary Oliver

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

— Khalil Gibran

Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.

— Noam Chomsky

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“Thoughts never require the touch of words to be expressed”

— Sushmita S Das

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

— Norman Cousins

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

— Charlie Chaplin

“Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.”

— Sister Souljah

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.

— Greg Behrendt

“Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.”

— Pat Conroy

Meaningless silent is always better than meaningless words.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Style is the way we speak to the world without words.

— Bobbie Thomas