Language Quotes · Page 281

The word 'cinema' itself means that you have to go to the cinemas and watch it.

— Shoojit Sircar

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

— Mignon McLaughlin

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

— Jamie Zawinski

You can't do the will of God if you don't know the Word of God.

— Jack Wyrtzen

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

— Lord Byron

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

“It's okay. It's going to be okay." Were his words for me or himself?”

— Pam Godwin

“It's easy to hear words. It's another thing to accept them.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in…

— Oscar Wilde

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his…

— Rex Stout

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

— Daniel Clowes

Since I was a kid, I've always been able to copy the mannerisms and body language of everyone around me.

— Eddy Alvarez

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

— Alan Moore

The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of…

— Kumar Anupam

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which…

— Lillian Hellman

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in…

— Kathy Acker

A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying.…

— Conan O'Brien

People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried…

— Anitta

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master. Our computers have trouble understanding how Homo…

— Yuval Noah Harari

As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely…

— Daniel Everett

Any Name of God in any language is worthy of respect but the original Name of God in the Semitic language is…

— Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down…

— Francine Prose

Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of…

— Arthur Koestler

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I…

— Godfrey Reggio

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

— Bayard Taylor

Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.

— Nalini Singh

Be careful what you tell a girl, she will remember it word for word.

— Raghib Clitso

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

— Anonymous

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

— Tom Robbins

“Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.”

— Shari J. Ryan

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

— William Lloyd Garrison

I'm not a singer in the traditional sense of the word.

— Everlast

When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

— Anonymous

The most powerful yet possibly least leveraged word in the average woman's vocabulary is NO.

— Lynn Gilliard

“In future, brainwave is a media of universal language.”

— Toba Beta

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

— Judy Chicago