Language Quotes · Page 110

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.

— Robert P. T. Coffin

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

— Elie Wiesel

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view…

— Robert Fripp

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In…

— Alan Lightman

“Words are small things. No one means any harm by them, they keep saying that. ... Words are not small things".”

— Fredrik Backman

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

— Don DeLillo

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest…

— John Ayto

We were doing the same thing. We will never have "a" Chicano English or Spanish because of regional differences. But I think…

— Ana Castillo

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

— Ben Elliot

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two…

— Camryn Manheim

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

— Bonnie Hammer

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

— Jason Kenney

Language turned apes like us into civil creatures.

— Greg Gutfeld

I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in "The Word" and filled the atmosphere with worship. Though I developed my own personal…

— Aisha Hinds

There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you.

— ProudLesbian

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

— Robert Smithson

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This…

— Suzanne Ciani

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

— Antonin Artaud

“It is possible to have a complex human relationship without words”

— David Brooks

I think 'genius' is an overused word.

— Steven Wilson

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.

— Homer

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the…

— Aldous Huxley

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

— Edward Sapir

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas…

— Kerry Max Cook

“Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now…

— Corrie Ten Boom

Honestly, if anyone reads my work, they're doing me a favor, so they get to use whatever words they want to describe…

— Celeste Ng

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

— Betty White

“When a child says, “Mr. Roberson, how do you spell this word? What does that word mean?” I’ll look tortured. “Oh,” I’ll…

— Doug Robertson

“Words make more revolutions than swords. Words cut deeper than knives. Words cut more cleanly, and leave the victim alive.”

— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman

In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to…

— Holly Hunter

Make your life a rose that speaks silently in the language of fragrance

— Vikas Runwal

“What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and…

— Robin Lee Hatcher

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's…

— Gregory Benford

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

— Cato the Elder

“Words have the power to change us...”

— Cassandra Clare

[My style in three words] youthful, sweet, and diverse.

— Melanie Martinez

We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being…

— Terence McKenna