Language Quotes · Page 167

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

— George Armitage Miller

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

— Peter Porter

“The word is “like a knife” because it can be used as a tool or weapon.”

— Ice Cube

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

— Charlotte Mason

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Love is a language spoken by everyone but understand only by the heart...

— S Sooraj

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

— Octavio Paz

The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

— Philip Wollen

The language is the hardest thing. My technical Russian is much better than my conversational Russian, and it has to be good…

— Shannon Walker

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American…

— William Safire

“Transitioning from their first language to English before they have a firm grasp of their first language, usually by the end of…

— Terry Marselle

The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s…

— Anna Kamienska

“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the…

— Jeremiah Walton

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable…

— Byron White

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from…

— David Berman

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode…

— Carol Gilligan

Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world…

— Maya Angelou

“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They…

— Tim Radford

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

— Antony Gormley

“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

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Faith comes by hearing and hearing comes from the word of the lord

— Debra Mitchell

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

— Guy Steele

Music speaks a language which raw words can not explain.

— Tshepo Koos Maluleke

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

— Catherine Opie

I just can't take anyone who tries to justify a comment using foul language.

— Divya Agarwal

Remember: the Word is God and God is the Word. You are what your words are.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

— Aristotle

“Words can educate and liberate—but TGC want to make them a salable commodity and nothing more.”

— Anonymous

Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships

— Geri Halliwell

“The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them.”

— Virginia Woolf

“when you’re talking to others, choose your words wisely.”

— Demi Lovato

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

— Mos Def

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

— Anonymous

“And as for the other night . . . there are no words, Avery. No words.”

— Christina Lee

Sometimes you love people in a language they cannot understand.

— Ritesh