Language Quotes · Page 109

“There was something empty at the bottom of all her words.”

— Neil Gaiman

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

— Orson Scott Card

“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

— Odette Annable

“Poetry is dancing with words.”

— Ana Monnar

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

— Alfred Marshall

For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of…

— Myles Munroe

I studied Latin and did Latin declamation and also English language declamation.

— Ayo Edebiri

And ten low words oft creep in one dull line:

— Anonymous

“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a…

— Frances McDormand

Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us.…

— Jacques Rogge

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

— Ingrid Bengis

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with…

— Daryl Davis

The greatest secret in the world today is: The Word of God is the will of God!

— Dr Victor Paul Wierwille

8 letters 3 words 1 meaning I love you!

— Anonymous

When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might…

— Vernon Howard

“These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous…

— Bill Bryson

I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the…

— Daws Butler

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

— Mary Oliver

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

— Milton H. Erickson

Often when you're an immigrant writing in English, people think it's primarily a commercial choice. But for many of us, it's a…

— Edwidge Danticat

I hate the word 'lesbian.'

— Syd

“A diplomat’s words must have no relation to actions—otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb…

— Adrienne Rich

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that…

— Thomas Reid

When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's…

— Sage Francis

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

— DJ Snake

Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom…

— Matthew Arnold

The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

— Madame de Stael

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

— Anne Stevenson

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned…

— Malcolm X

“Does it matter that people and things Have words, Have names? If not, Why read any book? A litany of useless letters…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.

— Horace

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a…

— Lewis Tappan

Sometimes the smallest of words can make a huge difference.

— Aqeb Fardeen

I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

— Courteney Cox

People like to use the word 'naivete' as a negative, but not for me.

— Brian Tyree Henry

“Some have the will of a language but lack a mouth.”

— César Calvo

Language and emotions are too easily misread. For example, laughing can mean many things: laughing with you or at you. Does that…

— Michio Kaku