Language Quotes · Page 173

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

— Famke Janssen

“I was too happy for words and I believe he was as well.”

— Anne Frank

The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself.

— Robin Sharma

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

— Attila the Stockbroker

Singing in a different language is a challenge, but 'Will I See You' was so much fun to create.

— Anitta

You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.

— Henry Miller

Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.

— Roy Choi

“There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.”

— Robert Lane Greene

As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting…

— Fiona Barton

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate…

— Gilles Deleuze

“It’s funny how some things are just words until one day, it happens to you, and it’s like an epiphany.”

— Cheryl McIntyre

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if…

— Noam Chomsky

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

— Meridel Le Sueur

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to…

— Jessye Norman

My dad is a minister and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their…

— John Boyega

When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific…

— Jim Woodring

I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on…

— Betty White

“The struggle of the sexes to know each other, to see each other, and to communicate deeply - a struggle which may…

— Robert Kegan

“I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn…

— Alejandro Zambra

Very few people can communicate with one another. The only language that's not subject to interpretation is mathematics, chemistry, basic science, engineering…

— Jacque Fresco

I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

— B. F. Skinner

“The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him - *blush*”

— Saravana Kumar Murugan

“You can’t see why anyone wouldn’t want to wallow in the sheer beauty of language .”

— Peter Watts

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

— Daisy Whitney

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

— Milton Babbitt

I certainly like that the Spanish language is spoken around me.

— Andrew Breitbart

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”

— David Mitchell

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

— Bob Goff

“Words can get lost, become meaningless and fall away. And promises have a way of getting broken.”

— Kate Stewart

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

— Rachel Riley

“What can sanctified the soul? The Word of God, the Holy Scripture, the Truth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing must always have intention because words have power.

— Suheir Hammad

And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.

— Stephen Amell

We don't have to do this. Just say the word and I can have a jet here in an hour. We can…

— Ally Carter

“I knew I was developing fluency in Spanish language when I started thinking in Spanish!”

— Steven Magee