Language Quotes · Page 267

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

— Sho Baraka

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

— Bill Cosby

Words are easy to say but hard to express in action..

— Anonymous

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

— Phil Collins

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

— Benjamin Jowett

You dont need to say a word; your eyes hold all the warmth and courage I need.

— Destiny Dreams

“They are conversation-openers in the arcane femine language of Shoe.”

— Claire Cross

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.

— Michael Korda

“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”

— José Saramago

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the…

— Hans Hinrich Wendt

I like to do things in my own way and have my own personal language, but I can't control how it's received.

— Rosalia

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all…

— Justin Bieber

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means…

— Garth Greenwell

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language…

— Richard M. Weaver

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution…

— Arthur F. Holmes

Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit daughter of Heavenly Father who…

— Sheri L. Dew

Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of…

— Dennis Altman

I had a very 'colorful' language, and every time I went to say something, Michael would cut me off with words like…

— Debbie Rowe

I think if we can't use the word feminist, if it's some kind of taboo or dirty word, or means you're ugly,…

— Ani DiFranco

There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning…

— Howard Snell

Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of…

— Randall Kennedy

All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the…

— Camille Paglia

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

— Evelyn Underhill

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

— Alessandro Michele

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

— Thomas Shadwell

Language because of our deep inner need to complain…

— Jane Wagner

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

— Patricia McCormick

I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'

— Ben Weaver

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

— Robert Nozick

I say bad words to express my feelings, not to tell that I'm a bad person.

— Anonymous

Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.

— Michel de Montaigne

“You, however, will know that this magic consists of 3 words: details, dialogue and conflict.”

— Andrii Sedniev

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

— Edward Hirsch

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

— Brian H. Hook

Music is the universal language; it is the soundtrack to our existence.

— Melody Gardot

A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?

— Neale Donald Walsch

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe