Language Quotes · Page 118

Sometimes words are not enough.

— Anonymous

Language is the only homeland.

— Anonymous

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

— Yunus Emre

“Pretty's just a pretty word.”

— Little Mix

Words have a lot of power.

— Juice Wrld

Color is a language, like music.

— Vlady Kibalchich Russakov

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

— Ridley Scott

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

— Harry Bridges

Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.

— Robert McCrum

“When words are too heavy for the mouth, the soul weeps in agony”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

— William J. Clinton

You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

— Terry Bozzio

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

— Don Watson

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Always speak words such that you can give in written.”

— Vimalkumar

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,…

— Bill Gates

“Words are made by history, we build them and they change meaning through time, but the music they play...”

— Claire North

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use…

— Evan Mandery

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms…

— Ezra Pound

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by…

— Horace

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a…

— Christopher Ricks

When I was playing with the Brooklyn Nets, we still called people soft, but we never equated it with being gay. It…

— Jason Collins

It's just about feelings. And the thing is we - everybody lives exactly the same things. We are all humans, even if…

— Stromae

There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your…

— Robert Greene

“Another fascinating example of esoteric knowledge adopted by the informed to communicate secretly was the use of sign language for the deaf.…

— Benjamin Blech

“Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness.…

— George Eliot

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“God's true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit. As if utterance fit into the requirements of the human mouth. I learned how to…

— Kazim Ali

“You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you…

— David Liss

“His manager taught him that words change with time, by single letters or more, sometimes their whole roots switching—a “y” to an…

— China Miéville

An experience without words is eternal

— Melody Minagar

Grammar is politics by other means.

— Donna J. Haraway

“Heart to heart we speak the same language.”

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

“The letters make words and words make us.”

— David Almond

You had better run from me. My words are fire.

— Rumi

There's always a better word than a swear word.

— Finneas

“We can only think in a language that we master.”

— don Jose Ruiz

Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

— Ben Jonson