Language Quotes · Page 176

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

I love words, and I love that there's so many words available to make a point and to create a picture.

— Paul F. Tompkins

“The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media,” I said, meaninglessly.”

— Ben Lerner

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean...

— Dave Matthews

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

— Terry Pratchett

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

— Samuel Beckett

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

— Winston Churchill

No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense…

— Frederick Buechner

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

— Joss Whedon

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

— David Crystal

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew,…

— Amos Oz

I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war,…

— PJ Harvey

“It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried…

— Scott Cawthon

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born…

— Laura Hillenbrand

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but…

— William T. Vollmann

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from…

— Linda Colley

Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not…

— Michael Salu

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens…

— Kiese Laymon

“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot…

— Galileo Galilei

“One danger zone is dialogue ... At the moment of ultimate showing, we writers get nervous. ... We allow characters to tell…

— Tin House Books

“Class was what formed you, but didn’t travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign places, you were singled…

— Amit Chaudhuri

“There was only one huge world with no back to it A world like a sun One day it broke into tiny…

— Octavio Paz

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

— Neil Gaiman

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

— David Bennun

“Nothing is Impossible. The word "impossible" itself reads "I'm Possible"!”

— Mayor A. Lan

Words are powerful. They have the ability to create a moment and the strength to destroy it.

— Anonymous

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.

— Amanda Seyfried

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

— William Shakespeare

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

— Markus Zusak

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

— Luis von Ahn

“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.”

— Nataly Kelly

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

— Timothy Noah

The word 'hope' for me is always infused with action.

— Morley

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And there. The power of a word. The power of one word. That's where it all changes.”

— Patrick Ness

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

— Ken Howard

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

— Jonathan Swift

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

— Tom Stoppard