Language Quotes · Page 316

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!

— Rick Riordan

“What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.”

— Don DeLillo

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

— Bob Goff

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

— Milton Babbitt

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”

— David Mitchell

I certainly like that the Spanish language is spoken around me.

— Andrew Breitbart

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

— Daisy Whitney

“You can’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to wallow in the sheer beauty of language .”

— Peter Watts

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

“The power of what we say is not determined by the duration of our talk but by its content. The more the…

— Joan Marques

“When I thought of the word "man," I could only think of those who could defend themselves and those they loved.”

— Andre Dubus III

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it…

— Erik Naggum

If Kubrick made me love forever the film language, Scorsese made me love actors. And 'Raging Bull' is my favorite male performance…

— Gaspar Noe

The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a…

— Arundhati Roy

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

— Anonymous

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

— Oren Arnold

Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview,…

— Patrick Stump

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our…

— Daniel Tammet

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of…

— Oliver Sacks

“{ Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } On…

— Owen Miller

You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't…

— Jude Deveraux

Today, there are over 7,000 languages spoken throughout the world. They may sound different, but in every case, they're drawing on the…

— David Pogue

Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading…

— George Muller

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

— B. F. Skinner

“The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him - *blush*”

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself.

— Robin Sharma

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

— Attila the Stockbroker

Singing in a different language is a challenge, but 'Will I See You' was so much fun to create.

— Anitta

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

— Henry Miller

Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.

— Roy Choi

“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.”

— Robert Lane Greene

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

“The more the soul loves the word, the more craving it has after it.”

— William Gurnall

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

— Pat Williams

We don't have to do this. Just say the word and I can have a jet here in an hour. We can…

— Ally Carter

“I knew I was developing fluency in Spanish language when I started thinking in Spanish!”

— Steven Magee

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

— Melanie Fiona

And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.

— Stephen Amell

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

— Friedrich Nietzsche