Language Quotes · Page 8

[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':]…

— Bess Truman

Words are the small change of thought.

— Jules Renard

“WORDS ARE TEETH. AND THEY EAT ME ALIVE. FEED ON MY CORPSE INSTEAD.”

— Gail Giles

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices…

— Kathy Acker

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make…

— George Orwell

A soft answer turneth away wrsth but grievous word sureth anger

— Anonymous

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even…

— James Richardson

“We know that words do not teach, that only life experience teaches, but the combination of life experience coupled with words that…

— Esther Hicks

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

— George Will

“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically. (Waterstones Trafalgar Square)”

— Waterstones

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

— Jon Secada

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition…

— Havelock Ellis

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words…

— Stephen King

“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed…

— Michael Chabon

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

— Larry Wall

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

— Adam Gopnik

Love is the only inexplicable language that humans understand.

— Keith Mosaic

Words, however, are things.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that…

— Jonas Carpignano

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

— Joshua Reynolds

“These words and these stories can save a life. Who knows – maybe even your own.”

— Jeanette LeBlanc

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

— Anonymous

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You…

— Robert Loggia

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the…

— Jay Mohr