Language Quotes · Page 277

I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.

— Homer

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

— Blaise Pascal

In the Hebrew language, there's no such word as coincidence.

— Paula White

Let me take a little moment to find the right words.

— Big Time Rush

It is the distance between us that creates language.

— Robin Skelton

Believe the word I will unlock my door and pass the Cemetery gates

— Pantera

“every word you speak is a qualification for you in future generation”

— Ananya Rao

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

— Anonymous

INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries…

— Werner Herzog

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

— Neri Oxman

Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a…

— Tony Robbins

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's so much terrible stuff in the clubs: you see audience's minds being polluted by awful language and base thoughts. But perhaps…

— Omid Djalili

“The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of…

— Thomas Huxley

Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia…

— Horace

The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more…

— Kenneth Coutts-Smith

“Words got me into trouble. They are the deadliest weapons of all, so that now the gun seems almost innocent by comparison.…

— Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

German has always felt the language that I come back to. It's given a very hard time by most people for being…

— Susie Dent

So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the…

— Neal Stephenson

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but…

— Harper Lee

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to…

— Richard Rorty

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

— Gertrud von Le Fort

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

— Muriel Barbery

“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone”

— Kenneth White

Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

— Elizabeth Bibesco

I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

“It's not the words that matter but the feeling you put behind them.”

— Akeo Furukawa

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

— Sarah Dessen

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

— Yann Martel

“sticks and stones may break my bones but words can do permanent damage”

— Chuck D

Literature is an art of word; philosophy is an art of thought.

— Ilkin Santak

The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.

— Gustav Stresemann

I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.

— William Zinsser

“people disagree because they don’t share the same understanding of the meaning of words.”

— Anonymous

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

— Caroline Gordon

“I’m a woman who loves words, but there are times there are no words.”

— Elizabeth Joy Arnold

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

— Joseph Joubert