Language Quotes · Page 169

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

— Peter O'Toole

Yes, if something good is offered in any language, I will do it.

— Vaani Kapoor

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

— Om Puri

“--and in fact, we humans need conflict just like we need language, to help us define who we are.”

— Mark Stephen Meadows

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?”

— Stephen Chbosky

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

— Yehuda Amichai

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

— Jules Renard

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Prepositional verbs grow like toadstools. Once there was credit in facing a problem. Now problems have to be faced up to. The…

— Harold Evans

“We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone…

— Gregory David Roberts

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

— Theodor Adorno

Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is…

— David Crystal

Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.

— Beppe Grillo

They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my…

— Peter Gabriel

One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of…

— Mary Norris

“Gjerji raises his hand. In English he says, "I like to tell in the words of a great American philosopher what freedom…

— Laura Kelly

I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America…

— Martin Luther

“There are faces which charge with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but…

— George Eliot

Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language…

— Kenny Smith

For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a…

— Elizabeth George

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped…

— Pauley Perrette

After having a career in Spain for eight years, I went back to being anonymous again, having to prove myself to the…

— Ana de Armas

“Just sing me your song. Teach me the words. Tell me what you know.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

“The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary.”

— Rhys Bowen

Please edit before you talk, your words are non refundable

— Sadenss

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

— Anne Waldman

“I realized that I was a bad listener: I paid too much attention to the words.”

— Mikhail Iossel

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

— Thomas Jefferson

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

— Nadine Labaki

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

— William Stafford

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

— John Fowles

“Did you know, ma'am, that our mutual friend can say "kiss my arse" in six languages?”

— Liz Carlyle

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

— Jack Kerouac

It is better to swallow words than to have to eat them later.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

— Edward Young

Love is the answer, that everyone seeks...Love is the language, that every heart speaks.

— Helen Steiner Rice

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

— Anonymous

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.

— Maria Edgeworth