Language Quotes · Page 308

The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.

— Rachel Cohn

I'm absolutely pedantic about language; it must go back to my schools.

— June Brown

Sometimes you can just hear the actor in the language.

— Ethan Coen

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

— Patrick Ness

“The more words you know the better chance you have of saying exactly what you mean”

— Al Brookes

“A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...”

— J. Buchanan

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words may never hurt me

— Anonymous

“That's the power of words; twenty six little letter can paint a whole universe”

— Jay Kristoff

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk…

— Theodore Bikel

Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic…

— Leland Orser

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one…

— Naomi Campbell

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Our words are very powerful, always make sure that you use the right words, which encourages people instead of discouraging.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

— Remy de Gourmont

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still…

— James Frey

Stood there and watched you walk away From everything we had. But I still mean every word I said to you.

— Selvan Murukeshan

Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American…

— Camille Paglia

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language.…

— Busy Philipps

“Chomsky'S grammaticality, the cate­ gorical S symbol that dominates every sentence, is more fundamentally a marker of power than a syntactic marker:…

— Anonymous

President-elect Trump has the vision. And what Mike Pence brings to the table as vice president-elect is somebody who knows Capitol Hill.…

— Jeb Hensarling

“To our indigenous ancestors, and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their oral traditions, language is less a…

— David Abram

Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words…

— M. K. Asante

I hate the word 'Americana,' so I won't use it. I don't even know what Americana is, exactly.

— Uncle Kracker

“Everyone wanted to have a word, but nobody wanted to say anything that mattered.”

— Alan Bradley

Some words can completely change the landscape of the heart.

— Yasmin Mogahed

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

— Kató Lomb

Dictator of their language is not refuse,,Regardless It may be a dictator,

— Mak_786

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

— Phillip Adams

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

— Rumi

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

— Tuppence Middleton

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

— Rumi

Lexicographers may be nerds who don't like human contact, but we're still people.

— Kory Stamper

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

— Winston Churchill

“The Word of God communicates and educates. It liberates and saves.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

I don’t know how to explain it.” “Try words. If that doesn’t work, we’ll move on to interpretive dance.

— Devon Monk

“ Mum's the word." " To be precise, dumbs the word.”

— Hergé

“The indictment introduced a new word to the English language – ‘genocide”

— Ann Tusa

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

— Richard E. Pattis