Language Quotes · Page 52

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

— Dave Chappelle

“Why no s for two deer, but an s for two monkeys? Brother Quang says no one knows. So much for rules!…

— Thanhha Lai

Music goes beyond nationalities - it's a language which you can understand in any country.

— Andris Nelsons

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

— Sophia Loren

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering,…

— Robin Marantz Henig

When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

— Rita Dove

That awkward moment when you spell a word so wrong that even autocorrect is like, I got nothing man.

— The Blog That Describe Your Life

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Love is the new word

— Lisa

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

— George Washington

But she had to know words. She had to know everything.

— Eva Ibbotson

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language…

— Steve Lacy

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.”

— Whoopi Goldberg

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use…

— Tracy Letts

I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate…

— Shane McCrae

Fear isn't in my vocabulary.

— Ernst Happel

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

— Neil Gaiman

I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important…

— Isabel Coixet

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst…

— Anonymous

I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.

— George W. Bush

Scientists speak a certain language. Now there are regular extreme weather reports on the news. Hurricane Katrina was a huge connect-the-dot moment…

— Laurie David

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

— Kenneth Branagh

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

— Gautham Menon