Language Quotes · Page 326

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

— George Armitage Miller

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

— Peter Porter

“And as for the other night . . . there are no words, Avery. No words.”

— Christina Lee

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

— Mos Def

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

— Anonymous

“when you’re talking to others, choose your words wisely.”

— Demi Lovato

“The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them.”

— Virginia Woolf

There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency…

— Bill Bailey

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

— Lynne Truss

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

— Barbara Kruger

“Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is…

— Nahiyan bin Asadullah

“Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language…

— Sylvia Plath

“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that…

— Agatha Christie

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it…

— Jean-Luc Godard

“NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to…

— Jenifer Mohammed

We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and…

— John Lachs

“ Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda" [modern: Minä tahdon kernaasti puhua suomen kieltä, [mutta] en minä taida] ("I willingly…

— Christine Wulff

I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger…

— Anne Waldman

I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and…

— J. M. Coetzee

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response.…

— Brene Brown

There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy…

— Emma Donoghue

Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design…

— Eric S. Raymond

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps…

— George Gordon Byron

“Words can educate and liberate—but TGC want to make them a salable commodity and nothing more.”

— Anonymous

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

— Geri Halliwell

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

— Aristotle

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Nothing is impossible. It literally has the words “I’m possible” in it!”

— Mackenzie .H

Always use tasteful words - you may have to eat them.

— Anonymous

For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.

— John Kinsella

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

— Holly Black

“Thoughts to words, words to paper. A gift we give ourselves, both now and later.”

— Nancy Fraser

Sometimes you love people in a language they cannot understand.

— Ritesh

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

— Pat Mora

In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.

— Bret Stephens

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

— Bruce Willis

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

— Thomas Keating

“We Russians cannot say anything in our own language ... At least we haven't yet.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

— Betty Eadie