Language Quotes · Page 276

I don't understand the words but I understand the actions

— Blacksonrap

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

— Joyce Meyer

There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

— Ovid

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

— Sarita Choudhury

“In three words I can sum up all that I've learned about: It goes on.”

— Jessi Kirby

“Kindness is not about words. It isn’t spoken. It is about action. Kindness is a deed.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

— Erin McKean

“written words even more so than spoken ones—had a kind of lasting power, that if something was written down, it was somehow…

— Michael Bailey

I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words…

— Susie Dent

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But…

— Werner Heisenberg

“When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired…

— Jeanette Winterson

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to…

— Northrop Frye

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making…

— Dennis Lehane

“Decades ago, Rudolph Flesch discovered that readers were not just attracted to words, but to the breathing room between sentences and paragraphs.…

— Harry Beckwith

“I had forgotten how different my language looks on paper, that its letters have so little resemblance to how they actually sound.…

— Monique Truong

Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the…

— Simon Winchester

The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,…

— Northrop Frye

The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code…

— Patrick Kavanagh

“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a…

— Richard J. Foster

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us…

— Benjamin Franklin

The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth…

— Gordon Korman

I think it is really important for everybody to have people who can speak your language.

— Timo Werner

“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.”

— Ben Jonson

“A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin.”

— John Del Gaudio

“Words are not important in themselves, but as resonators for a center.”

— Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

— Nicola Griffith

Divorce is certainly a word that is not friendly and welcome to someone.

— Mak_786

For me, it's enough that I have the first and last word.

— Jurgen Klopp

“You are still here stitched into the words on these walls.”

— Tamara Ireland Stone

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

— Catherine Opie

“Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.”

— Emma Donoghue

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

— Antony Sher

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

— Robert Smithson

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

— Herbie Hancock

“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.”

— Cochise

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

— Rita Dove

“inability to decipher words came from neglect, but Eve knew better.”

— Suzanne Brockmann