Language Quotes · Page 399

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

— Johann Georg Hamann

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that…

— Ava Dellaira

“Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“We need the word of God to grow in our faith but we need the voice of God to survive the odds…

— Ikechukwu Joseph

The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language…

— Dan Buettner

Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family…

— Alice Sebold

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

— Kató Lomb

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his…

— Rex Stout

Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of…

— George Santayana

I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master…

— Derek Walcott

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of…

— Kevin Barry

I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of…

— Jaume Cabre

“Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which is the bean itself,…

— David Bergen

It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment…

— Henri Poincare

“She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.…

— Lauren Oliver

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those…

— Salman Rushdie

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

— Daniel Clowes

“Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in…

— Oscar Wilde

Since I was a kid, I've always been able to copy the mannerisms and body language of everyone around me.

— Eddy Alvarez

“The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read…

— Gabrielle Zevin

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

— John Ashbery

There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

— Jeremy Jordan

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

— Tim Hawkins

“Recognize, though, that graphs and equations provide an economical and effective way of expressing things that torture the tongue.”

— Steven Vogel

Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.

— Terry Eagleton

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying…

— Simon Van Booy

“writing is perilous, as you can’t always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

— Jojo Moyes

Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence…

— Russell Baker

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a…

— Richard Mitchell

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come…

— James Wan

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

— Frank Herbert

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact…

— Ken Danby

“The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.”

— Jill Telford

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You can't simply know something by assembling a committee of words! That's it! I'll assemble your comittee! -Professor

— Futurama

I bought a dictionary. First thing I did was, I looked up the word "dictionary", and it said "you're an asshole".

— Demetri Martin

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes.…

— Gershom Scholem

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

— Jerome Kern

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

— David Bezmozgis