Language Quotes · Page 314

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

— Drew Barrymore

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

— Dana Spiotta

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

— Laura Schlessinger

Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.

— Jerome Roldan

“The most rigorous reading is to find what those words on that page mean in our own lives.”

— Kylene Beers

The more I read about words; the more careful I am about using them

— Anonymous

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

— Elissa Schappell

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

— John Millington Synge

“Now Lucy sighed on his behalf. Communication must be difficult when your ass whittled the opposite sex’s vocabulary down to one word.”

— Tessa Bailey

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness,…

— Lewis Thomas

Love doesn't need to be expressed through words, sentences , phrases or any language because lovers understand each other with their looks…

— Anonymous

“Even in societies where words are often strictly controlled, messages diverse never die. Resembling seeds scattered here and there, they find all…

— William E. Jefferson

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

— Muriel Rukeyser

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel…

— David Frum

Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other…

— Frank Schoonmaker

Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be…

— Bergen Evans

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone.…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Gossip is certainly one of the things that language is useful for, because it's always handy to know who needs a favor,…

— Steven Pinker

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of…

— Mark Twain

I prefer girls to wear dresses because I like how they influence a woman's body language. I also love skirts. One of…

— Christian Louboutin

Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better.

— Jack Kerouac

“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.”

— Arabella Sveinsdottir

Words spoken can go as far as air can go and stay close to our heart we can not always eat them.

— Kishore Bansal

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

— Gertrude Stein

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

— Sebastian Coe

I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own.

— Eric McCormack

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

— Eudora Welty

The words: never, can't, quit, and fail, are not in my vocabulary.

— Robert Cheeke

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

— Kingsley Amis

Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed.

— Jiang Wen

“Your words create images and eventually you will live out the reality of that image.”

— Charles Capps

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.

— Sandra Cisneros

A friend is always a conclusion of a story where three words joint together to form END

— Sachin Pkhrl

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

— Winslow Homer

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

— Yasmine Hamdan

“This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.”

— Charles Pearson