Language Quotes · Page 146

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

— Christopher Buckley

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

— Bruno Tonioli

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

— Adrienne Rich

Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.

— Grey Livingston

Remember... One kind word can Change someone's entire day!

— Ritu Ghatourey

He who carries the word no with him will never be poor even when he is old.

— Vikrant Parsai

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

— Christopher Monckton

When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

— Anonymous

Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and…

— Barack Obama

Drake and his camp are people of their word. I've never seen them say they're going to do something and not do…

— Ashley Walters

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

— Pope Francis

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

— Pratik Gandhi

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith…

— Barack Obama

There's really no substitute for being able to sit across from someone, have eye contact, see and read their body language, hear…

— Margaret Brennan

Silent vows were broken and words that can't be taken back but you mean so much more to me. Than anything I've…

— Killswitch Engage

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from…

— Anonymous

“The language that we employ in internal and written communications with oneself contains complex thoughts. My written self-speech employs language that is…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost…

— Italo Calvino

My point to you is, there is no such thing as a flop that takes the field for our football team. Just…

— Les Miles

One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable…

— Clay Shirky

Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills.…

— Murong Xuecun

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

— Anonymous

A good word is better than silence and silence is better than evil talks.

— Anonymous

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

— Hilary Mantel

There is power in words. What you say is what you get.

— Zig Ziglar

Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Sometimes it's the simplest words that means the most.

— Anonymous

“I can't believe these words are going to come out of my mouth, but here goes. Yep,”

— Terry Mayer

“Be a good listener, so your spoken words may be appropriate”

— Emmanuel Aluko

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

— E. B. White

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

— William Butler Yeats

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

— Rumi

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“When it comes to words Mamma says, "If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said.”

— Annette Bridges

When we're the victims of insulting language and attacks, it's obviously going to evoke a response.

— Andrew Scheer

Words dont mean anything if you don't put meaning to them.

— Anonymous

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

— Viggo Mortensen