Language Quotes · Page 271

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Is there a word for being emptier than empty?  That’s what I am.”

— Kasey Millstead

“Like golden apples in silver settings are words spoken at the proper time.”

— Proverbs 25 11

It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.

— Dan Levy

I love to be a part of movies, irrespective of the cultural and language barriers.

— Atul Kulkarni

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

— Martin Heidegger

“The conversations were important; not the words spoken during them.”

— Lindy Zart

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by…

— Horace

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a…

— Christopher Ricks

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms…

— Ezra Pound

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use…

— Evan Mandery

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

— Elif Safak

“Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Tell me about your first breath of foreign air, about the history that filled your lungs. Tell me about the memories you…

— Tyler Kent White

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

— Anthony Marra

“Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the…

— Hal Herzog

There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had…

— Frank Luntz

“If you know all the languages of the world and you don't know your mother tongue or the language of your culture,…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“Millions of those who are watching...can read hardly at all. Millions more can read the words but cannot understand them. Of those…

— Walter Lippmann

“The power of words is the power of change. Like a flood in the desert a great story surges into our lives…

— Luke Alistar

As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the…

— Betty Edwards

“What is this power of words? In our everyday routine, we use words to carry out all our transactions. If someone praises…

— Harsha Yardi

Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of…

— Roland Barthes

I'm always very keen to learn a skill or a language for my films.

— Shweta Tripathi

“Every single line that you write, you hang on every single word, and you hang on every single moment.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“African languages one third of all the languages of the world,”

— Thomas Sowell

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

— Rumi

Oh that thou hadst like others been all words, And no performance.

— Philip Massinger

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“NEED seemed like a really powerful word - - a powerful word containing a lot of powerlessness.”

— Katie Alender

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

— Chris O'Dowd

All I need is you, Lord JESUS, and your word so I may live truly.

— Anonymous

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

— Spencer Wells

Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.

— Alex Ferguson

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

— Rob Pike

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

— Douglas Adams