Language Quotes · Page 318

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

— Eric Gill

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

— Yasunari Kawabata

“A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

— Robert Frost

“At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.”

— Bodhidharma

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

— Stephen Sondheim

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

— Mark Strand

“A man has his word, even when he has nothing else to give.”

— Paul W. Feenstra

What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make…

— Grace Paley

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

— Jim Rohn

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a…

— Louise Bogan

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

— Philip Greenspun

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power…

— Preston and Child

“When out of their native province, the Galilaeans sometimes so blended or divided words as to render them unintelligible.”

— James John Courtenay

When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of…

— Wendell Berry

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our…

— Albert Einstein

Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four…

— Michel Odent

It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to…

— Max Lucado

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should…

— Chinua Achebe

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is…

— George Bernard Shaw

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've…

— John Lydon

“Language is changing constantly; printing and modern education have slowed it but have not stopped it. Given all this change, when, exactly,…

— Robert Lane Greene

Love is a 4-letter word that everyone's trying to define.

— Rhiel14

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

— David James Duncan

“I've missed you." The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.”

— J.D. Salinger

My wife and I had words the other night. . . . . . . . . . Well, I had words; She had paragraphs.

— Green Monk

“In other words, it is a great deal more dignified to battle with words.”

— Rick Johnson

The rose speaks o love silently. in a language known only to the heart of heart.

— Anonymous

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

— David Bezmozgis

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

— Robert Morgan

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

— Neil Gaiman

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

— David Bennun

“Nothing is Impossible. The word "impossible" itself reads "I'm Possible"!”

— Mayor A. Lan

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

— Winston Churchill

“The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media,” I said, meaninglessly.”

— Ben Lerner

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean...

— Dave Matthews

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

— Terry Pratchett