Language Quotes · Page 92

Hey, ive got 2 words for you. What? I love you. Huh, isnt that 3 words? Cuz you & I are one.

— Cheryl

It was complicated in Italy - not just for the language, but also for the way I transmitted my messages and my…

— Frank de Boer

“English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the…

— M.F. Moonzajer

The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences.…

— Amos Oz

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and…

— Sasa Stanisic

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our…

— Ntozake Shange

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

— Agnes Repplier

“Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged…

— John Steinbeck

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

— Albert Einstein

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you…

— Anonymous

Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

— Paul Simon

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay…

— Bart Stupak

Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary…

— James Webb Young

Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very…

— Samuel Barnett

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“You have my word. I won't let anyone-anything hurt you. This will work out. It will.”

— Anne Eliot

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.

— Kate Horsley

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

— Novalis

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

— Vladimir Putin

I am not a word, I am not a line, I am not a girl that can ever be defined.

— Nicki Minaj

Let deeds correspond with words. [Lat., Dictis facta suppetant.]

— Plautus

“It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour:…

— Patrick Hamilton

“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a…

— Dorothy Allison

I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.

— Kristian Nairn

The word of the day:BEAUTY <3

— Anonymous

Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no…

— Leonard Shlain

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

— Nick Morgan

The German language is the organ among the languages.

— Jean Paul

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

— William Wordsworth

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

— Confucius

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

— Douglas Crockford

Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to…

— Naomi Klein

“You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.”

— Plato

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

— Ernest Hemingway

The biggest issue for me has been the language because I speak so much German now. I've had to focus on my…

— Motsi Mabuse

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

— Winston Churchill

In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language…

— Edward J. Fraughton