Language Quotes · Page 287

I Can't De'code The Code_words Language I Don't UnderStand What You want to Ask me

— Mak_786

“Silence, because not everything can be expressed in words, Words, because silence needs company...”

— Minhal Mehdi

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

— Ross Perot

“(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.”

— Tom Stoppard

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

— Edward Conze

Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings.

— David Olusoga

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

— Tony Hoare

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

— Rita Mae Brown

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

— Larry Wall

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean…

— Frederick Lenz

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a…

— Joseph Joubert

“(In reply to: Which is more important, the sound or the music?) 'Both equal, some people don't care about words but for…

— Steven Battelle

There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.

— Frederick Lenz

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

— Karl Kraus

Someone struggle not with standing the use of inappropriate language and words is against the dignity of the individual.

— Ernest Hemingway

There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and…

— Parker J. Palmer

I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language…

— Flannery O'Connor

But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the…

— Werner Erhard

“Ever since his first ecstasy or vision of Christminster and its possibilities, Jude had meditated much and curiously on the probable sort…

— Thomas Hardy

There is undoubtedly much to learn about the social uses of language, for communication or for other purposes. But at present there…

— Noam Chomsky

“Conversation starters. Icebreakers. Openers. However you choose to label them, that moment when the first words come out of your mouth can…

— Susan C. Young

Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a…

— Peter Bradshaw

Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in…

— T.C. Boyle

“Small-minded speakers and writers hide behind humongous words.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Words are the tools we use to express our reality.”

— Steve Maraboli

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

— John Erskine

“Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

— K. J. Yesudas

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

“a word, as often happens, can be like a musical worm in the mind and invite repetition. But”

— Alexander McCall Smith

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

— Alexandra Adornetto

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You don’t have to say a word, because your actions speak volumes for you.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

— Tina Turner

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

— Patrick Swayze

“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities? —PABLO NERUDA”

— Arundhati Roy

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

— Anonymous