Language Quotes · Page 331

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

“Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.”

— Shari J. Ryan

I'm not a singer in the traditional sense of the word.

— Everlast

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

— William Lloyd Garrison

When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

— Anonymous

Be careful what you tell a girl, she will remember it word for word.

— Raghib Clitso

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

— Bayard Taylor

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in…

— Cyril Connolly

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me…

— Robert Morgan

“Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with…

— John R. Dallas Jr

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

— Alice Sebold

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and…

— Louise Leakey

People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read…

— Mithun Chakraborty

There was a certain feminine satisfaction in having the last word, delivering her line smartly, and breaking the connection between them quickly…

— Christine Feehan

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of…

— Harold Pinter

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize…

— Thomas Szasz

I believe that we must use language. If it is used in a feminist perspective, with a feminist sensibility, language will find…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's…

— Anais Nin

You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you…

— Roger Ailes

Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of…

— Lydia Millet

“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make…

— George Orwell

What disturbs or assures us about race has very little to do with blood or biology. Race is about how you use…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.

— Nalini Singh

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

— Anonymous

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

— Tom Robbins

“It's okay. It's going to be okay." Were his words for me or himself?”

— Pam Godwin

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

— Lord Byron

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

“It's easy to hear words. It's another thing to accept them.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

— Willemijn Verkaik

I love the body language of the women cricketers and the attitude with which they carry themselves.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

— Ayn Rand

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

— John Clare

The sound of a word is not as important as it's meaning.

— Ace Kid

“Words are words, but more is heard when more is learned.”

— A.G. Porter

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg