Language Quotes · Page 282

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

— Lee Iacocca

Every word has a meaning, and every feeling has a word. - Johnny Luckett

— Johnny Luckett

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

— William Albert Allard

Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain.

— Louise Glück

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.”

— Stephenie Meyer

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

— George Orwell

“sometime... there should be outburst of words to avoid complication.”

— Upasana Banerjee

Understand the POWER of Three-words magic phrases I am sorry, I forgive you and I love you

— Melchor Lim

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

— Francesca Annis

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each…

— Emmanuelle Beart

Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and…

— Amanda Gorman

A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those…

— Dorothy Fields

There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support…

— Thomas Davis

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me,…

— Antonio Banderas

Not all people can understand what you mean. Because we may have the same LANGUAGE but we don't have the same way…

— Nishan Panwar

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

— Chris Ware

“There is evidence that the honoree [Leonard Cohen] might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you're wondering,…

— Tom Robbins

I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to…

— PJ Harvey

“But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and…

— C.S. Lewis

Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given…

— Noam Chomsky

Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is…

— Howard Rheingold

“Each species of intelligent life in the galaxy learned to limit its perceptions of the world it inhabited in order to preserve…

— Sheila Finch

We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still…

— Noam Chomsky

Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can "infinitize" us, granting us what immortality there is to be had…

— Rebecca Goldstein

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

— Anonymous

Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.

— Wayne Brady

“I try to decipher if my life lives through my words or if my words become my life.”

— Shannon Lynette

“If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

— Jim Harrison

In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.

— Fred Hampton

“Don’t try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I’d rather dirty up.  ”

— S.L. Jennings

“between the word and the world lie fading eternities of soon”

— Laura Riding Jackson

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

— Julio Cortazar

“Words are words, but more is heard when more is learned.”

— A.G. Porter

“Stars announce their presence with beauty, not words; do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I love the body language of the women cricketers and the attitude with which they carry themselves.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

— Willemijn Verkaik

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

— Ayn Rand

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

— John Clare