Language Quotes · Page 161

“people disagree because they don’t share the same understanding of the meaning of words.”

— Anonymous

I think a sentence is a fine thing to put a preposition at the end of.

— William Zinsser

Literature is an art of word; philosophy is an art of thought.

— Ilkin Santak

Let me take a little moment to find the right words.

— Big Time Rush

In the Hebrew language, there's no such word as coincidence.

— Paula White

I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.

— Homer

“inability to decipher words came from neglect, but Eve knew better.”

— Suzanne Brockmann

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.

— Blaise Pascal

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

— Sri Chinmoy

Something like a 'Maheshinte Prathikaram' will work anywhere in the world because it speaks of something that is beyond language.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in…

— John Irving

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the…

— Joseph Addison

I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have…

— Rachel Miner

I don't place too much importance on words. It's always the last thing I do because I'm definitely more interested in mood.

— Jack Tatum

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and…

— Miguel de Cervantes

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

— Alan Alda

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the…

— Lucretius

“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a…

— Alain de Botton

“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French…

— Deborah Levy

Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding…

— Maria Montessori

Bryzgalov isn’t just a running comedy act. He’s one of the league’s most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the…

— Ilya Bryzgalov

I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden…

— Larry Gelbart

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a…

— Roger Fry

“Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train…

— Steven Pinker

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

— Rita Dove

“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.”

— Cochise

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

— Muriel Barbery

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

— Gertrud von Le Fort

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

— Anonymous

Believe the word I will unlock my door and pass the Cemetery gates

— Pantera

“every word you speak is a qualification for you in future generation”

— Ananya Rao

It is the distance between us that creates language.

— Robin Skelton

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

— Alan Rudolph

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

— Amanda Gorman

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“Words were a conjuration, and their charms had begun to bewitch him.”

— Sid Fleischman

“Fashion is always an instant language... easy to speak and wonderful to feel.”

— RJ Yolande Mendes

If the entire product is good, then no matter what the language of the film is, people will love it.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

MARRIAGE, A word that should be pronounced as mirage;

— Nikhil Saluja

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

— Rumi