Language Quotes · Page 268

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

— Edward Gibbon

“Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same.”

— Mykyta Isagulov

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.

— Richard P. Feynman

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

— Michel de Montaigne

A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

— Edward Steichen

“Words can build us up and tear us down in an instant.”

— Sharlene Simone Alexander

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.

— Anonymous

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

— Anonymous

“I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both…

— Caroline Polachek

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the…

— Anonymous

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart." J.L. Bond”

— J.L. Bond

The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.

— Barack Obama

The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak…

— Allan Bloom

Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of…

— Peter Greenaway

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged…

— Cary Fukunaga

OK, so we all know that 'Borat' is humiliatingly, career-endingly unfunny (one trick too many for one-trick pony Sacha Double-Barelled) - but…

— Mark Fisher

Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language,…

— Robert Reich

Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a…

— Mani Ratnam

“And Dimble, who had been sitting with his face drawn, and rather white, between the white faces of the two women, and…

— C.S. Lewis

“Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent…

— David Sedaris

“Gain a language and you gain a second lens through which to question and understand the world.”

— Timothy Ferriss

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

— Howard Rheingold

“To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite.”

— C.J. Ducasse

“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”

— Cameron Conaway

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

— Toni Morrison

People never think about words, they only feel them.

— Han Suyin

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.”

— Lauren Oliver

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

— Anthony Doerr

“I'm sure I'll have more to say about the penis word.”

— John Irving

Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

— Anonymous

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

— Laura Dave

“You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.”

— Joseph Eastwood

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

— Thomas Paine

“I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.”

— David Malouf

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns...

— Lynn Steen