Language Quotes · Page 319

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

— Samuel Beckett

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

I love words, and I love that there's so many words available to make a point and to create a picture.

— Paul F. Tompkins

Play is a medium of word and film is a medium of picture.

— Paresh Rawal

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

— Cornel West

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

— David Levithan

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

— Toni Morrison

I'm a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and…

— Rhys Ifans

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the…

— Kenneth Burke

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree…

— Paul Nurse

“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I’m afraid that all the queen’s horses…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures…

— Knut Hamsun

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in…

— John Steinbeck

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

— Edward Gibbon

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

— Thiruvalluvar

People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it…

— Neil Postman

“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception…

— Dan Simmons

I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two…

— Paul Laffoley

“After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the…

— Joanne Harris

What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people -…

— Larry Ellison

People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They…

— Isabel Allende

“Some politicians have a gift for language. Trump is not one of those politicians. His sentences call to mind an aerial shot…

— Katie Tur

we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

— Sol Stein

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

— Neri Oxman

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

— Rumi

I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.

— John Grant

Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

— Samuel Johnson

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

— Ken Howard

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

— Jonathan Swift

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

— Tom Stoppard

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And there. The power of a word. The power of one word. That's where it all changes.”

— Patrick Ness

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

— Morley

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

— Luis von Ahn

“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.”

— Nataly Kelly

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

— Timothy Noah

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

— Amanda Seyfried

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

— William Shakespeare