Language Quotes · Page 147

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

— Winston Churchill

“Words are action, and sentences represent a person’s mental action and aspirations.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

— Roger Babson

Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak.

— William C. Bryant

I love you more than words can difine,feelings can express and thought can imagine.

— Elijah Musantu

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.

— Maureen McCormick

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's…

— Edward Hirsch

“The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

— Mark Twain

There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language…

— James Avery

Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the…

— Mohammed Dib

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Why can't we speak another language, one we all agree on? Why when men look outside, they see houses, instead of the…

— Ellie Goulding

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when…

— Jodi Picoult

I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature…

— William P. Young

In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was…

— Grace Jones

Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Because I am eighteen I know a great many things; for example, I know that sticks and stones are indeed very effective…

— Alyssa Brugman

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked…

— Kate Millett

A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the…

— Paul Celan

Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood,…

— Douglas Coupland

“Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into moments in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by…

— Muriel Barbery

“I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.”

— Emily Murdoch

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

— Bernard Pivot

The language surrounding cancer is not language I'm particularly comfortable with.

— Michael C. Hall

“The language of the heart Is the only language That everybody can understand.”

— Sri Chinmoy

“No one else can translate the language that is you.”

— Rave Jaida Jones

“Having words and explanations for things is too modern”

— E. L. Konigsburg

Never Forget what someone says to you when they are drunk. Because Drunk words are Sober Thoughts

— Wiz Khalifa

A film that can be described in words is not really a film.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

“I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.”

— LaMar Boschman

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

— Anonymous

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

— Frank Herbert

“The language has a relatively large following[citation needed] in the Ruby community.”

— Anonymous

SORRY, the HARDEST WORD to say if YOU DID SOMETHING BAD.

— ALYSSA

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

— Blaise Pascal

“I am made of words. This is not what I do. It is what I am.”

— Malebo Sephodi

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

— T. D. Jakes