Language Quotes · Page 171

If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

— Ingeborg Bachmann

When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.

— David Steindl-Rast

Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.

— Monty Roberts

Positive words are the glue that holds relationships together.

— Tom Rath

The Word of God is a powerful spirit whether it is spoken or written.

— Nellie Tui

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

— George Orwell

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

— Josh Billings

“Words are our raw materials, how we string them them together our art.”

— Michael W. Smart

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

— Mary Baker Eddy

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

— Alasdair Gray

“(Precocious children rarely grow up good). My aunts and uncles thought me quite atrocious. For using words more adult than I should”

— W.H. Auden

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the…

— Jay Mohr

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

— Charlton Laird

My guilty pleasure at the end of the day is an old thesaurus. I know that can lead to overwriting, but if…

— Bettany Hughes

“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we…

— Virginia Woolf

I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very…

— Marge Piercy

“He had never clearly fathomed the true weight of a word of good, truth, and purity cast in the stream of human…

— Ivan Goncharov

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where…

— J. K. Rowling

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I'm one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I'm not entrenched in some view of what culture…

— Bill Bailey

“Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the…

— J.M. Coetzee

'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six…

— Richard Rodriguez

Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure…

— William Drenttel

“Although I don't use it nearly so much anymore, I've decided, five years down the line, that Mr. Treadstone's verdict on 'kind…

— Gavin Extence

I like a lot of Spanish language writers. I really love Javier Marias.

— Katie Kitamura

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

— Karen Marie Moning

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

— Anonymous

“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities? —PABLO NERUDA”

— Arundhati Roy

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

— Anonymous

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

— Tina Turner

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

— Patrick Swayze

“You don’t have to say a word, because your actions speak volumes for you.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“a word, as often happens, can be like a musical worm in the mind and invite repetition. But”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Music is the medium. Words merely enhance the composition.

— K. J. Yesudas

“Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

In film, I like transformation. That goes for the language, for the image, for the performance.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

— John Erskine

“Words are the tools we use to express our reality.”

— Steve Maraboli