Language Quotes · Page 300

I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

— Neil Gaiman

“Kind words are a gift. They create wealth in the heart.”

— Jan Chozen Bays

Your words have no value unless your actions support them

— Sarah Moores

I can do whatever I want, and I'm not going to let anyone tell me what language I should speak in.

— Alice Merton

“Home," he said softly. "If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.”

— Mary Doria Russell

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

— Winston Churchill

“Comamandering is not a word. It has letters, doesn't it? Sounds like a word to me.”

— Tahereh Mafi

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Don’t you think it’s peculiar that the English language only has one word to encompass so many different feelings?”

— Anonymous

Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction.…

— Eckhart Tolle

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude…

— Peter Brook

“On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was…

— Ezra Pound

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get…

— Gordon Ramsay

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity,…

— Lytton Strachey

“All words are masks, and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. —Steven Millhauser, “August Eschenburg”

— Matthew J. Sullivan

We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being…

— Terence McKenna

“I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together.…

— Geoffrey Wood

And the betrayers of language … n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters…

— Ezra Pound

“[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large…

— Charles Dickens

Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best…

— Lewis Thomas

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write…

— William Hazlitt

The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“You should try to avoid using the words "should" and "try".”

— Swami Pranayomama

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

— Betty Boothroyd

Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.

— P. Chidambaram

It's easy to talk about what you're going to do but your actions speak words.

— John Assaraf

We are responsible for our words & our actions. Strive to do better everyday.

— Anonymous

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

— William J. Clinton

“Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.”

— Amit Ray

“Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.”

— J.L. Bond

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

— Philippa Gregory

I'm Howard Stern with a vocabulary. I'm the man he wishes he could be.

— Don Imus

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

— Lillian Hellman

“Words have an immeasurable impact, they can either build or destroy so be careful of your words.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

In order to know the Will of God, you must know the Word of God

— Anonymous

I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid.

— Julia Michaels

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.

— Paul Auster

“Sapiens use language to create completely new realities.”

— Yuval Noah Harari