Language Quotes · Page 296

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

— Maya Angelou

“Two most powerful words you can ever say.” His friend asks, “What’s that?”“I’m sorry.”

— Faleena Hopkins

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

— Dan Simmons

“My eyes speak another language, you just need super powers to read it”

— RJ Yolande Mendes

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

— Terence McKenna

“The Word says that God will never give you more than you can bear. Never.”

— E.N. Joy

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm Marcus"!”

— Marcus Hodges

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

— Marvin Bell

“This man obviously contained some sort of catalytic converter that rendered the filth of his language as natural and inoffensive as dirt…

— David James Duncan

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe…

— Margaret Haddix

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

— Plato

“Words are like clay. You can have them however you want and mould them whichever way you like, but let your words…

— Gift Gugu Mona

Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just…

— Sriti Jha

Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency…

— Julian Barnes

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find…

— Natasha Trethewey

I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I…

— Sam Lipsyte

My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for…

— Stefan Sagmeister

What Rob Brezsny does with words is grammarye, the Old English term for magic. With his strange brew of macho feminism and…

— Antero Alli

I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a…

— Haruki Murakami

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we…

— Hassan Blasim

“We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a…

— Paul Graham

There's one word that exists in every language on the face of the Earth and in every society since man began to…

— Tommy Smothers

Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books…

— Amos Oz

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

— Steven Pinker

“Words do no good unless you’re ready to hear them.”

— Shae Ford

“The way the word sinks into the deep snow of the page”

— Gregory Orr

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

— Ernest Cline

English is an Indian language. It reaches a wider audience across the country.

— Shobana

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

— Robert A. M. Stern

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

— Antonin Artaud

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

— Carrie Brownstein

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

— Hannah More

“‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.”

— Patrick Lane

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

— Roland Barthes

The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

— Elliot W. Eisner

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

— Katherine Mansfield

My love said to me how much you love me. then I said I have no word to explain it

— Suraj Ary

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

— Jack Gilbert

The language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.

— Rush Limbaugh