Language Quotes · Page 157

The most powerful yet possibly least leveraged word in the average woman's vocabulary is NO.

— Lynn Gilliard

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

“It's easy to hear words. It's another thing to accept them.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“It's okay. It's going to be okay." Were his words for me or himself?”

— Pam Godwin

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

— Lord Byron

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

— Tom Robbins

“I have learned to avoid this. The goal is to communicate, not to impress readers with your vocabulary.”

— Michael Hyatt

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.”

— Anonymous

“It’s a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now…

— Gayle Forman

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do…

— Peter Hermann

“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as…

— Victor Klemperer

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

— Vernor Vinge

“if you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take—if you thought at all? Of course you thought—she had never…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her…

— Nicole Brossard

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside…

— James Cromwell

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with…

— Tim O'Brien

A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you…

— Clay Aiken

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just…

— Mark Twain

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in…

— Kate Beckinsale

One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth…

— Cory Michael Smith

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

— Anonymous

Be careful what you tell a girl, she will remember it word for word.

— Raghib Clitso

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

— Bayard Taylor

Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.

— Nalini Singh

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Stars announce their presence with beauty, not words; do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Words are words, but more is heard when more is learned.”

— A.G. Porter

The sound of a word is not as important as it's meaning.

— Ace Kid

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

— John Clare

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

— Willemijn Verkaik

I love the body language of the women cricketers and the attitude with which they carry themselves.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

— Ayn Rand

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

— Jim Harrison

“If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“I try to decipher if my life lives through my words or if my words become my life.”

— Shannon Lynette