Language Quotes · Page 320

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

— Markus Zusak

Words are powerful. They have the ability to create a moment and the strength to destroy it.

— Anonymous

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

— Rob Pike

Why should I just limit myself to the Urdu language? Why not sing in different languages?

— Junaid Jamshed

“The intention behind the words is always more important than the words themselves.”

— Jackie Arnold

I'm getting to compose music for diverse language films from all over the country.

— Amit Trivedi

“Words to a writer is like notes to a musician, both know when they are off key.”

— June Davidson

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

— Raymond Carver

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

— Danielle Trussoni

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

— Clay Shirky

It seems that words get chalked off as something the person said, but isn't that what words are to begin with.

— Gayla Leach

The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely…

— Bernard Goldberg

“Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“I toss pretty words up in the air and if I am lucky, they will fall gracefully upon my pages-nancy b. brewr”

— Nancy B. Brewer

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

— Jodi Picoult

“It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a…

— Janet Beizer

“As social phenomena, languages are tied up in world of unequal power relations, gaining or losing status not based on technical linguistic…

— H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman

I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex…

— Andy Warhol

An amoeba is a formless thing which takes many shapes. It moves by thrusting out an arm, and flowing into the arm.…

— Charlton Laird

“Sheriff Gibbs, the vocabulary of the English language is the wonder of the whole world. Chaucer spoke it and Shakespeare and Winston…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“Since well before the Kung's engine noise first penetrated the forest, a conversation of sorts has been unfolding in this lonesome hollow.…

— John Vaillant

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of…

— Aberjhani

“When I learn the meaning of a word, I know the word; but when I say to myself, 'I know the word,'…

— George MacDonald

“languages. Notice how they almost make sense, some of them.’ ‘Yes, and that’s”

— Vernor Vinge

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

— Robert Frost

'You are a master of the words you don't say and a slave to the ones you do!'

— Anonymous

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

— Alice Hoffman

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

— Ben Stiller

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

— Elie Wiesel

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Dont put words in my mouth¦my foot is already in there.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.

— Maggie Grace

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

— Tibor Kalman

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

— Anonymous

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

— Freya Stark