Language Quotes · Page 824

Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high…

— Ramsay MacMullen

“My eyes skimmed over the legalese and bureaucratese (two languages I had never mastered), until I found something descriptive to”

— Neal Stephenson

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then…

— Ann Patchett

“What you think becomes what you speak and what you speak will manifest in your life...be careful with your words”

— Marcee Bonds

C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.

— Jamie Zawinski

I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working…

— Jim Jarmusch

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

— Walker Evans

“All our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.”

— Amos Oz

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

— Paul Krassner

“A photograph is a poem without words”

— Holace

With clothing and fashion, the language changes - the gloves come off, and we all can participate.

— Jim Drain

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

— P. D. James

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

— Luis von Ahn

“What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled...some imprecision…

— Gregory Maguire

“Words from another person cannot hurt you unless you give them power by taking them into your being, accepting them, and making…

— Dr. Anne Marie Evers

“Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Every word you add dilutes the sentence.

— Miller Williams

“SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? IM: So, so, so, so, so, so, so awesome.”

— Issac Marion

“I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by…

— Gregory Maguire

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

— Molly Haskell

You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.

— Willy Brandt

I expect, after all nothing happened to your words.

— Meicee

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And…

— Kenneth Burke

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are…

— Herbert Simon