Language Quotes · Page 811

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

— William Gurnall

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

— Vernon Jordan

I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual,…

— Jamilah Lemieux

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

— Langston Hughes

Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing…

— Anonymous

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

— Lech Walesa

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

— Anonymous

...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he…

— Amitav Ghosh

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in…

— Marshall McLuhan

We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we…

— Costa Ronin

“Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.”

— Jay Parini

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude…

— Simone de Beauvoir

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

— Edmund de Waal

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

— Charles Dickens

“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

— Mardy Grothe

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through…

— James Joyce

Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally…

— Michel Ocelot

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

— Lawrence Lessig

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

— Eddie Cantor

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

— Johnny Flynn

I'm open to exploring different regional cinema also because each language has a different performance drama.

— Pratik Gandhi

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

— Catherine Opie

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

— Sasha Velour