Language Quotes · Page 285

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

— Jack Kerouac

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Did you know, ma'am, that our mutual friend can say "kiss my arse" in six languages?”

— Liz Carlyle

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

— John Fowles

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

— Nadine Labaki

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

— William Stafford

“I realized that I was a bad listener: I paid too much attention to the words.”

— Mikhail Iossel

I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews…

— John Rocha

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact…

— Ken Danby

“The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.”

— Jill Telford

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come…

— James Wan

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

— Frank Herbert

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

— Lucy Liu

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in…

— Nelson Mandela

Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like…

— Jane Goodall

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word…

— Harry Chapin

“All night he either traversed his apartment with an agitation equal to that, which anxiety had so lately inflicted, or composed and…

— Ann Radcliffe

The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a…

— Russell Jacoby

This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“...it was another year or two before I discovered that drat and draft were different words. During that same period I remember…

— Stephen King

“--and in fact, we humans need conflict just like we need language, to help us define who we are.”

— Mark Stephen Meadows

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

— Om Puri

Yes, if something good is offered in any language, I will do it.

— Vaani Kapoor

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

— Peter O'Toole

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

— Yehuda Amichai

“What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?”

— Stephen Chbosky

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

— Tahereh Mafi

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

— Ani DiFranco

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

— Martin Jacques

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

— Shneur Zalman

“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.”

— Bryant McGill

“For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Books are where words live. I read to see who's home.”

— Tom Van Dyke

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

— Neville Brody