Language Quotes · Page 181

Lexicographers may be nerds who don't like human contact, but we're still people.

— Kory Stamper

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

— Winston Churchill

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

— Rumi

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

— Rumi

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

— Tuppence Middleton

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

— Phillip Adams

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

— David Levithan

The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.

— Neil Gaiman

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

— Kevin Drum

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But…

— George Zimmerman

A few good words don't just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the…

— Ravi Shastri

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing…

— Richard Flanagan

“there are words inside me that don’t want to hide anymore. Perfect or not, they don’t want to be safe for much…

— Gayendra Abeywardane

“so word for word/My master spoke, and I asked him for the food/To fill the appetite these words inspired.”

— Dante Alighieri

Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis…

— Randall Robinson

“But unlike this book, the dictionary also discusses words that are far more pleasant to contemplate. The word 'bubble' is in the…

— Lemony Snicket

“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words—sasumuneash for cranberry,…

— Geraldine Brooks

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms,…

— George Henry Lewes

Maybe because I'm from New Jersey, I just have this kind of plain language hangup. But I would make very clear -…

— Chris Christie

People… they don’t write anymore – they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that.…

— Anonymous

In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It…

— Gregg Braden

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not…

— Antonio Conte

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

— Louis Pasteur

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

— Eyvind Kang

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“Books aren't made of pages and words.Tehy are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.”

— Harlequin

“the words people say to us not only have shelf life but have the ability to shape life.”

— Bob Goff

You can Take the Country of Of The Word but You cant take Country out Of the Girl

— Victoria Jones

Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.

— Clifford Longley

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

— Agatha Christie

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.

— Evan Daugherty

“If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.”

— Rodney Ulyate

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

— Nicole Krauss

For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous

— Walter J. Ong

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

— Mitch Hedberg

“If there was an international language between men in the world, it was about women.”

— Carl Hoffman

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

— Terry Brooks