Language Quotes · Page 317

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

— Suheir Hammad

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

— Rachel Riley

“What can sanctified the soul? The Word of God, the Holy Scripture, the Truth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Words can get lost, become meaningless and fall away. And promises have a way of getting broken.”

— Kate Stewart

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

— Stephen King

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

— Julianna Baggott

“what i miss most is certainly the words and the quiet”

— Hanna Abi Akl

“No word is too grand or too infinitesimal to be considered”

— David Levithan

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

— Leo Ornstein

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an…

— Sarah Palin

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I…

— Clifford Stoll

When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do…

— Doug Ose

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound…

— Desmond Tutu

I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our…

— Grant Morrison

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick…

— Kim Hyesoon

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons…

— Robert Fitzgerald

Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome…

— E.D. Baker

“Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their…

— Nelson Mandela

I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my…

— Paul Rusconi

All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they…

— John Green

I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from…

— Naomi Wallace

"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because…

— Florence King

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly…

— Rae Armantrout

It was Mary who first adored the Incarnate Word. He was in her womb, and no one on earth knew of it.…

— Peter Julian Eymard

I had the opportunity to travel to America when I was younger and learned the language.

— Rodri

I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.

— Margaret Cho

Smile …the simplest language even a baby can understand…

— Anonymous

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

— Taylor Swift

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

— Lytton Strachey

“Language is not the barrier, the heart is". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

If no words come, you can always give him the finger.

— Simone Elkeles

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other”

— Lance Conrad

No, you can't take back your words. Because once you say them, there's no refund.

— Francine Chiar

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

— Steven Berkoff

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

— Albert Einstein

“You know there’s a word for someone like you … naïve.”

— Joanne McClean

I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you.

— Faraaz Kazi

“... A little word can have a big impact. The difference between all and some. - Liz Sutton”

— Susan Mallery

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

— James Arthur