Language Quotes · Page 292

Summer afternoon...Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

— Henry James

There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.

— Anonymous

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

— Jonathan Swift

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words

— Charlotte Rampling

But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, there's times when they jes wont come.

— Jean Toomer

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

— Plutarch

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

— Bell Hooks

“ Words words words. Words Words words. Words words Words .”

— Ali Smith

The idea that cannot be converted into words is a bad idea, and the word that cannot be converted into action is…

— Ritu Ghatourey

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

— Marlene Dietrich

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in…

— Mark Twain

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

— Alan Rickman

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based…

— David Mamet

“Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it…

— Karen Joy Fowler

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got…

— Katherine Dunn

The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical…

— Donald Watson

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of…

— Daniel Keyes

“Words were inadequate, but all he had. He didn't know where they came from or why, but it was how we told…

— Samantha Silva

One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as…

— Dan Winters

Apparently, there are as many as 880 spoken languages in India, out of which 31 languages have been given an official status.…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension…

— David Abram

“This is the whole problem with words. There is so little surface area to reveal whom you might be underneath, how expansive…

— Rebecca Lee

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important…

— Helen Keller

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

— Ethan Zuckerman

“Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.”

— Munia Khan

The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

— Kalle Lasn

“Words can point the way, but the path must be traveled in silence.”

— Thomas Hoover

He says a word, and I say a word—autumn is deepening.

— Kyoshi Takahama

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

— Erol Alkan

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

— David Almond

“When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.”

— Maria Edgeworth

“The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language.”

— Jeanette Winterson

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Uh, my ass is, like, protruding...Protruding. The word of the day. Use it.

— Snooki

“I had no idea words could have so much power and beauty.”

— Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Consciousness is non-local and does not depend on words to communicate.

— Bernie Siegel

Poise is a word that seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. There's no emoji for it.

— Martha MacCallum

Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters.

— Tabu