Language Quotes · Page 324

“ A Word is Dead A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live…

— Emily Dickinson

“Words had a way of creating their own imperatives.”

— Stephen King

“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.”

— Susie Orbach

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

— Nicholas Lea

“I can’t even think about words because the sunset stole them all.”

— Abby Slovin

“oh if my mind could speak what would my words think”

— a mad man

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

— B. C. Forbes

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

— Evelyn Waugh

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

— Sigmund Freud

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

— Richard Jackson

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

— Mukesh Ambani

I have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I'm learning a new language.

— Maxine Waters

“You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a…

— Chloe Neill

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

— Jose Saramago

Headlines can be strengthend by the inclusion of emotional words like darling, love, fear, proud, friend and baby.

— David Ogilvy

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like…

— John Edgar Wideman

Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one…

— Paul Rudd

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any…

— Karen Marie Moning

Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation… The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.…

— Molly Peacock

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative…

— Christian Bale

The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words --…

— Thomas Campbell

“The sum of the knowable, that soil which the human spirit must till, lies between all the languages and independent of them,…

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to…

— Mitch Albom

We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.

— Cate Blanchett

Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.

— Karl Kraus

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

— Billy Joel

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, making people happy and healthy.

— Anonymous

If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

— A. R. Rahman

Using the word 'Thingy' when you can't remember what something is called.

— Anonymous

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

— Jane Wagner

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

— Nipsey Russell

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

— Jack Kerouac

“Everything I ever accomplished in this life was because of these three words: Why not me?”

— R.G. Yoho

“Our voices sound kinder in the skin of our own language.”

— Melina Marchetta

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

— Richard Paul Evans

“If my words are the only power I have, I intend to use them well.”

— Loretta Lost

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.

— Chita Rivera

The word beautiful has nothing to do with the word skinny

— Anonymous