Language Quotes · Page 15

Speak but one word to me.

— William Morris

End is a gloomy word.

— Robert Frost

I stick to my word.

— Tammy Abraham

I'm a vocabulary nerd.

— Sam Trammell

I hate the word sexy.

— Ursula Andress

I hardly use cuss words.

— Sai Pallavi

Too marvelous for words.

— Johnny Mercer

The final word is love.

— Dorothy Day

When you work with words, words are your work.

— Don Knotts

“The world is made up of words.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Sometimes you take all my words away from me.”

— Amie Kaufman

Words not kept break more than a promise.

— Ron Kaufman

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

— Timothy West

I have two words for you ''FUCK YOU!''.

— Jazzy

Think before you speak, words can hurt.

— Farahjayne809

“Words are doctors for the diseased temper.”

— Aeschylus

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

— Susan Sontag

One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.

— Richard Armitage

Peoples words affect you only as much as you let them.

— Ritu

“A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.”

— Bernard Bloch and George L Trager

I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.

— Larry King

“Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone”

— Paulo Freire

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

— Robert Metcalfe

No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense…

— Frederick Buechner

“There are over 10,000 idioms in American English, and some of them have been in use for more than 2,000 years, while…

— Gail Brenner

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet…

— Joseph Brodsky

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance,…

— Marina Abramovic

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say…

— Anthony Geary

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked…

— George Orwell

By studying psychology i want to be a better actor. There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know…

— Shia LaBeouf

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how…

— Squarepusher

Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other…

— Tom Robbins

We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than…

— Louie Anderson

My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had…

— Alfonso Soriano

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and…

— Alonzo Church

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad,…

— Tom Schulman

“Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with…

— Brian Friel

I got a alot of forigenier at my school so alot knowns different language. One of my teacher is one she Korean…

— MrCountry

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in…

— Antony Gormley