Language Quotes · Page 303

“My tongue produces words faster than my brain can approve them.”

— Jason Segel

I am happy to do a film in Bengali language as I know and love that language.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

— Carl Sandburg

The greatest secret in the world today is: The Word of God is the will of God!

— Dr Victor Paul Wierwille

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

— Temple Grandin

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

— Garth Stein

“Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart.”

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Ohh! Wow!! Ohh!! Wow!! Those the only two words you know? Sounds like a dirty movie.

— Aya Nakahara

Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

— Frank Bough

“However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary…

— Yukio Mishima

The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess…

— Peter Greenaway

Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat…

— Javed Akhtar

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Dictionaries are well respected, and they’re immune to market fluctuations. Isn’t there anyone with the balls to aim high and think long-term?…

— Shion Miura

Tollywood has a special place in my heart because Telugu is my mother tongue, and when I sing in the language, my…

— Armaan Malik

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

— Wilfred Funk

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom.…

— Nicholas Kristof

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about…

— John Oliver

“So you speak French?" Isabelle sighed. "I wish I spoke another language. But Hodge never thought we needed to learn anything but…

— Cassandra Clare

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what…

— Haruki Murakami

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood,…

— John Muir

The hardest thing is being with other people — it's like they're on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They…

— J.R. Ward

“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of…

— Elena Mauli Shapiro

The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

— Paolo Sorrentino

The first word about you is that you received this life...

— Rob Bell

“What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.”

— Horace

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions dont speak. People speak, and people are loud.

— Jennette McCurdy

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain,

— Lisa Gerrard

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Words have special powers...to lift up or put down...to heal or harm. Choose your words carefully.

— Anonymous

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

— Bible

Lips speak darkness in the midst of chaos. In love words speak light that overcomes the darkness.

— Jeremy Limn

I have so many languages in my mind and it's something nice to be able to speak languages in the game.

— Andre Onana

“Some people are born with words flowing in their veins.”

— Margarita Engle

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

— Dick Cavett

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

— Azim Premji

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

— Khaled Hosseini

I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.

— John Flanagan