Language Quotes · Page 777

Fools throw words wherever they like, hoping their sentences are wise by default..

— Ritu Ghatourey

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it…

— B. F. Skinner

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

— Nishan Panwar

Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.

— Roland Orzabal

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

— Howard G. Hendricks

Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do…

— Ann Richards

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the…

— Harry Mathews

In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language…

— Steve Cosson

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

— Alan Kay

To be of few words is natural.

— Laozi

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.

— ingrid Bergmen

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal…

— Michael Salu

“Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.”

— John White

Growing up, I was taught a mans word is his bond.

— Logan Mankins

“If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on…

— William Gibson

[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate…

— Jeff Buckley

So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a…

— Henri Poincare

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

— Samuel Beckett

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

— William Golding

“language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.”

— Daniel Keyes

Words are the only bread we can really share.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Be trained to understand the power of words and will see the importance of speaking positive words to others.

— Anonymous

When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to…

— Josephus

I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having…

— Seymour Papert

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by…

— Roy Blount, Jr