Language Quotes · Page 177

I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.

— John Grant

Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

— Samuel Johnson

I'm getting to compose music for diverse language films from all over the country.

— Amit Trivedi

“The intention behind the words is always more important than the words themselves.”

— Jackie Arnold

Why should I just limit myself to the Urdu language? Why not sing in different languages?

— Junaid Jamshed

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

— Rob Pike

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Dont put words in my mouth¦my foot is already in there.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

By studying psychology i want to be a better actor. There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know…

— Shia LaBeouf

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in…

— Grace Cavalieri

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how…

— Squarepusher

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance,…

— Marina Abramovic

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say…

— Anthony Geary

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet…

— Joseph Brodsky

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked…

— George Orwell

“The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing.”

— Elizabeth Chadwick

People often say Beckett is difficult or bleak, but engaging with it is the most life-affirming, uplifting thing. It's his use of…

— Adrian Dunbar

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in…

— Robert Greene

My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only…

— Terry Eagleton

At our peril, we ignore the fact that black vernacular, like the blues, both has a form and performs... For just as…

— Kevin Young

'StrengthsFinder 2.0' is an effort to get the core message and language out to a much broader audience. We had no idea…

— Tom Rath

We need to understand that we've divided our country in language based states. So what happens is that more regional parties come…

— Vikram Bhatt

I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in…

— Robert Benchley

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

— Ben Stiller

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

— Elie Wiesel

'You are a master of the words you don't say and a slave to the ones you do!'

— Anonymous

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

— Alice Hoffman

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

— Robert Frost

“languages. Notice how they almost make sense, some of them.’ ‘Yes, and that’s”

— Vernor Vinge

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

— Raymond Carver

“Words to a writer is like notes to a musician, both know when they are off key.”

— June Davidson

The most important word in the English language is hope.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

— N. T. Wright

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.

— Richard Branson

We all had to search for more words to describe things.

— Tim Gunn

Be carful with your words. Once they are said they are forgiven, but not forgotten.

— James