Language Quotes · Page 119

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

— Jean Baudrillard

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

— Nadine Labaki

“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your words have no form and shape. But still they can hurt someone badly.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

— Pema Chodron

You are my strength when I am weak, you are the words when I can't speak.

— Celine Dion

Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.

— Nick Littlemore

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

— Jose Rizal

“I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.”

— K.D. Green

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

— Aldous Huxley

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

— Alberto Manguel

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

— Henri Delacroix

“It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.”

— James N. Powell

No matter how you use it or what context you are using it in, words hurt.

— Trea Turner

Understanding language is core to a lot of Google products such as Gmail.

— Jeff Dean

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

— Anonymous

Words can hurt others, but sometimes, silence hurts even more than words.

— Nishan Panwar

“Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.”

— Gail Honeyman

When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean.

— Herbert A. Simon

Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

— Peter Gabriel

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.

— Stephon Marbury

“That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.”

— Kevin Hearne

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

— Fred Hoyle

“You could say she hid there, in the words, an escape within an escape...”

— Aurelie Sheehan

“Always remember, kind words are free, and yet, they are often priceless.”

— Charline Ratcliff

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

— George Steiner

You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone

— Al Capone

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

— William Zinsser

“I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.”

— Joshua Kryah

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

— Susan Butcher

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

— Mason Cooley

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

— Tim Bedore

“I am a complete slave to vocabulary, I ought to have named my cat Roget.”

— Muriel Barbery

Never underestimate the power of words, words hurt even more than actions.

— Anonymous

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

— D. A. Carson

“Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.”

— Ambrose Bierce

Study words so that you can use them significantly, effectively, worthily.

— Grenville Kleiser

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

— Samuel Butler