Language Quotes · Page 291

“He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.”

— Rachel Joyce

True words are not always pretty.. pretty words are not always true...

— Anonymous

It's ideal as an actor to be able to command the language you're having to use.

— Emma D'Arcy

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

— Kenneth Frazier

“Every word I say. Everything I do. You may take it as encouragement,”

— Meljean Brook

“I cringed at the stupid 'b' word. Really, the English language is kind of limited in that department.”

— C.M. Stunich

Choose your words wisely for they can hurt so much...

— Anonymous

“Do yourself a favor and replace the word ‘later’ with ‘no”

— Ela Crain

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's [the word “sorry”] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility…

— Minette Walters

“Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who…

— Billy Collins

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

— Lewis Thomas

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was…

— Irvine Welsh

With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we…

— Eric McCormack

The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without…

— Anonymous

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression…

— Paul Ricoeur

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it…

— Mark Twain

Words hold tremendous power, and if we don't reclaim our language and start seeing people instead of 'militants,' drone victims instead of…

— Abby Martin

Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language…

— Hugh B. Brown

And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our…

— Samuel Daniel

“Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't,…

— Mort W. Lumsden

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for... getting attention is…

— Brit Hume

“They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a word is worth a million pictures. A billion. As many as…

— Richard Tillotson

In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left…

— Karl Kraus

The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

— Maria Montessori

“There can be a greater power in words than in all the steel within the Circle of the World.”

— Joe Abercrombie

I'm not gay - everybody thinks I am - but I dig 'The L Word.'

— Shawn Colvin

Politicians need to realise that words have consequences.

— Layla Moran

Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, nor forgotten.

— Anonymous

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

— Roman Jakobson

We should take Democrats at their word when they say never let a crisis go to waste.

— Lauren Boebert

“Great words won’t cover ugly actions and good frames won’t save bad paitings.”

— New Noise by Refused

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.

— William C. Brown

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

— Mukesh Ambani

“After learning the foreign language Gibberish, I became a dream spokesman.”

— Jarod Kintz

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

— Zoe Wanamaker

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

— Richard Paul Evans

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.

— William Stafford

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

— Agnes Martin

Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.

— Richard Hooker