Language Quotes · Page 284

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

— Alfred Binet

Those three words can change your life if you hear them from the right person.

— LivinBreathinHel

I'm sorry, could you please tell me what the definition of the word "is" is?

— William J. Clinton

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.

— Neil Strauss

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

— L. Ron Hubbard

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

— Ernest Klein

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

— Warwick Thornton

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

— Khalil Gibran

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

— Gao Xingjian

I'm a French director, but what's important for me is that my stories have a universal message, whatever language they're filmed in.

— Maimouna Doucoure

“The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living…

— Mark Stephens

“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.”

— Justice Frankfurter

“(E)very genuine act or word, no matter how trifling it seems, leaves a sweet and strengthening influence behind”

— Louisa May Alcott

Every country has its own language, but of course the whole world speaks one language the language of love from the heart,…

— Mak_786

Always expecting Good WORDS from people is just like standing with both legs on a football and expecting it to remain still…

— Arjun Thaman

“Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the…

— Robert Cormier

“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did…

— R. Scott Bakker

The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of…

— David Lambert

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its…

— Peter Ackroyd

There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I believe, as a Puerto Rican, that the majority of Puerto Ricans want to be Puerto Ricans. Once we become annexed to…

— Oscar Lopez Rivera

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are…

— Clayton Christensen

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed…

— Steven Pinker

Things get damaged; things get broken. I thought we'd manage with words left unspoken.

— Anonymous

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.

— Francine Prose

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

— Anonymous

So what I don't say the three most important words that doesn't mean anything

— Anonymous

Industry jargon may not be a language your customer understands.

— Ron Kaufman

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.

— Patricia K. Kuhl

What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home.

— Chauncey Depew

“I step around in a field of words, just trying to find the right ones to pick for you. ”

— Larissa Ellis

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

— Sonny Bono

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

— Sophia Loren

There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.

— Megan Hart

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

— Anne Waldman

Please edit before you talk, your words are non refundable

— Sadenss

“The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.”

— Rhys Bowen

“Just sing me your song. Teach me the words. Tell me what you know.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

— Jules Renard