Language Quotes · Page 312

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body.

— Jeanne Moreau

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images.

— Temple Grandin

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Death is only a translation of life into another language.”

— Francis Marion Crawford

“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.”

— Paul Valéry

“Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.”

— John Patrick Lowrie

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

— Mark Forsyth

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too…

— Kim Edwards

Words are like wind. They come and go in an instant. They can make you feel free & happy, and they can…

— Anonymous

When you're from the Antilles, or of African descent, you're often stereotyped as nonchalant, and it's true my body language might have…

— Wendie Renard

“Over the years, I’ve noticed that most of my colleagues and friends have their own favorite but relatively obscure words that even…

— James W. Pennebaker

There's no question that Donald Trump has had ample opportunity to distance himself from the kind of racist language that comes from…

— Donna Brazile

I'm always willing to dub myself in all the five languages that I speak for the international market, because I think it's…

— Massimo Dobrovic

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or…

— Ethan Canin

Tollywood is where I made a name for myself, and it's all thanks to the love and affection my fans have showered…

— Rakul Preet Singh

I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached…

— William Golding

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of…

— Anton Chekhov

There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating…

— A. S. Byatt

“As a matter of fact, no other language in the world has received such praise as the Lithuanian language. The garlands of…

— Immanuel Kant

“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that…

— Umberto Eco

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the…

— Ingmar Bergman

To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New…

— Fletcher Knebel

When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the…

— Jean Houston

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

— Yiyun Li

That awkward moment when you realize you've been mispronouncing a word your entire life...

— Anonymous

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

— Timothy West

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

— Bill Watterson

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

— Anonymous

“Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.”

— Amit Kalantri

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“A person can speak many languages and still struggle to say what they feel.”

— Yurii Ivchenko

Every director has his own syntax, his own grammar, his own words.

— Alexandre Desplat

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

— Susan Abulhawa

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

— Ahdaf Soueif

Words cannot express how tired they are of being used by you.

— Anonymous

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

— Gloria Steinem

Words dont mean anything when your actions say another.

— Anonymous