Language Quotes · Page 114

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by…

— Ugo Betti

Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in…

— Gary Chapman

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does…

— Karl Marx

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a…

— Alain de Botton

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.

— Jonathan Barnbrook

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

— John Oliver

“There are two things that cannot be taken back- the sped arrow and the spoken word.”

— Jane Casey

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion…

— W. H. Auden

Audiences want to watch good films, even if it is dubbed in another language.

— Tamannaah

“The words hurt my throat a little – probably because I was swallowing my pride, and it didn’t taste so great.”

— Emma Winters

“Those are not hollow words, casually spoken in order to offer shallow comfort.”

— C.G. Ayling

“In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being…

— Peter Sloterdijk

I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever…

— Eben Alexander

It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such…

— African Spir

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and…

— Rowan Atkinson

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

— Hilma Wolitzer

“We all learn other languages through our mother tongue.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

— Amos Oz

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

— Joseph Brodsky

Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture.

— Jensen Huang

Language is wine upon the lips.

— Virginia Woolf

Words are not enough to express how much I love you.

— Janelle J

[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion,…

— Sarah Fielding

“What I hide by my language, my body utters.”

— Roland Barthes

James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he…

— Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.

— Anonymous

When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the…

— Jean Houston

So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body…

— Anonymous

“Words are important. Words shaper our perceptions. When they define, they can also distort. There is a far better way to describe…

— John Eldredge

My dad used to say, 'Without your word, you're not a man.'

— Joe Biden

“Words are wind, and the only good wind is that which fills our sails.”

— George R.R. Martin

“When the words demand attention, they must be delivered!”

— KC Rhoads

“[Don Beck] said, after hearing about the three stages of epiphany, "There's a word in the Bantu languages that [Archbishop Desmond] Tutu…

— Dave Logan

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

— Ludwig Borne

Language does not matter to audience if content is good. It is the director's belief which is translated on screen and roles…

— Mukul Dev

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words…

— James Schuyler

I am available as an actor across languages.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

— Ursula K. Le Guin