Language Quotes · Page 123

Words are for those with promises to keep.

— W. H. Auden

'Entrepreneur' is a French word.

— Xavier Niel

My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

— Gautama Buddha

Words Have Power, Use Them wisely

— Anwar Saicha

Even writers need relief from words.

— Sarah Vowell

All words have life cycles.

— Erin McKean

“The paper burns, but the words fly free.”

— Akiba Ben Joseph

No words can describe how amazing he is

— Talyiah

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

— Jerry Garcia

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.

— Patricia Garfield

Don't use time or words carelessly, neither can be retrieved

— Anonymous

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

— Noam Chomsky

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

— Mark Twain

“I don’t have the words. I want to touch her, but I don’t deserve it.”

— Holly Black

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

— Vaclav Havel

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

— Gregory Bateson

Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.

— Scott Adams

“That all may be one." We were born for these words, for unity, to contribute toward its fulfillment in the world.”

— Chiara Lubich

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer…

— Danny Fox

'The Blue Dragon' uses very filmic language and involves a lot of technology. It is more cinematic than theatrical and was inspired…

— Robert Lepage

Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip…

— Shel Silverstein

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory…

— Maya Angelou

He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.

— John McLeod

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap.…

— Katherine Paterson

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the…

— Guy Davenport

“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words…

— Mark Forsyth

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and…

— Susan Griffin

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because…

— Diane Wakoski

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade…

— Laurence Sterne

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but…

— Harper Lee

So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the…

— Neal Stephenson

Faithful to the word given and the idea had.

— Fernando Pessoa

We know not what we do When we speak words.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm not a heartthrob. I hate that word.

— Enrique Iglesias

“Words both written and read are my passion.”

— Leslie Austin

The word of God is my vow.

— Pittacus Lore

My programming language was solder.

— Terry Pratchett

“The world is built with words.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere.

— Lance Armstrong