Language Quotes · Page 156

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

— Winston Churchill

“Words are sometimes great explorers,traveling to destinations that the feet are not able to follow.”

— Robert Wolpe

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

— Al Capone

“Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.”

— Ben Johnson

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

— Marilyn vos Savant

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

— Florence Welch

“When all are one sentience, Language withers and fades away. Let's sit together and speak in silence, Let's be light to each…

— Abhijit Naskar

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated…

— Robin Sloan

While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm…

— Psy

Words are wonderful gifts given to our voice, they may often become noise; but silence is always golden, it gives us power…

— Chinmoy Sarkar

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits…

— Edward Sapir

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that…

— Steve Hackett

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought…

— Michael Ondaatje

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern…

— Harry S. Truman

“By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that 'Noah's boy' was a slice…

— Bill Bryson

I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then…

— Joss Whedon

One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who…

— Alessandra Stanley

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night…

— Scotty Smith

So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting…

— Cornelia Funke

If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it,…

— Francis Beaumont

Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals…

— Temple Grandin

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Spirituality has a language of it's own and some people haven't learned to speak it.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“[...] words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [...]”

— Jonathan Coe

“When words amount to nothing, Kindness is everything.”

— Joanna Alamo

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

— Igor Babailov

“common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.”

— Kate Atkinson

When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

— Anonymous

I'm not a singer in the traditional sense of the word.

— Everlast

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

— William Lloyd Garrison

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson

“Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words.”

— Shari J. Ryan

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

— William Albert Allard

Every word has a meaning, and every feeling has a word. - Johnny Luckett

— Johnny Luckett

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

— Lee Iacocca

“In future, brainwave is a media of universal language.”

— Toba Beta

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

— Judy Chicago