Language Quotes · Page 275

We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

— Jeet Thayil

Music has no language barriers and this has been proved right several times by the Chennai audience.

— Javed Ali

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

— Jane Austen

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

— Steven Wright

It is always a pleasure to work with a Malayali crew, regardless of the language of the movie.

— Atul Kulkarni

“Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Something that you don't like to hear better just let it be, if not the words will comes to you again.

— Anonymous

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

— William Saroyan

I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter…

— W. Bruce Cameron

“Mirroring makes speech possible; language relies on the reflective quality of I and you through which verbal interaction becomes possible.”

— Siri Hustvedt

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up…

— Will Cuppy

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or…

— Anonymous

When I was playing with the Brooklyn Nets, we still called people soft, but we never equated it with being gay. It…

— Jason Collins

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to…

— Howard Nemerov

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that…

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are…

— Earl Sweatshirt

“For example, only some members of a hunting society have the experience of losing their weapons and being forced to fight a…

— Peter L. Berger

And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the…

— Corey Flintoff

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is…

— Robert Bringhurst

I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and…

— Keith Sonnier

We spent all day together [with Phil Wood] at that one particular lesson, which was maybe the third or fourth lesson, in…

— Jon Gordon

But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there…

— Janet Frame

“Ornate language tended to unsettle him. Passages from nineteenth-century novels might glow like hot coals or squirm like heaps of snakes. In…

— Harry Dolan

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

— Emily Carr

A person is master to those words they don't say, and slave to the ones they do.

— John Reyes

“Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.”

— Brian Holguin

Words are easy. It's convincing the heart that's hard.

— Maria V. Snyder

“I discovered that words are alchemy, that words really can save us.”

— Sarah Combs

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

— Jacques Le Blanc

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

— Jacques Barzun

He is as good as his word - and his word is no good.

— Seumas MacManus

“All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“If you believe what you say, words become reality.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

— Charles Handy

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

— Grant Morrison

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

— Karel Capek

I have the impression that every word is a word too many. I'm constantly holding myself back.

— Brigitte Macron

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect

— Paul Muldoon

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

— Fred Melamed