Language Quotes · Page 185

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

— Plutarch

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

— Joan Aiken

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

— Mark Twain

Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.

— Jeanette Winterson

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

— Fred A. Hartley, Jr

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

— Talib Kweli

My words have always either attracted a strong mind or offended a weak one.

— Sherlyn Chopra

“Don’t speak to them in the language of the dead, Mr. Marinville.”

— Stephen King

Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the…

— Wallace Stevens

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

“[A] person is formed from a continuum of words and actions over time and cannot be reduced to a fixed “self” that…

— Stephen Batchelor

“He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Pertrakis.I have never heard a more…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them…

— Zach Gilford

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it…

— Morris Graves

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern…

— Alan Watts

Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys…

— Anonymous

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed…

— Robert Burchfield

Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in…

— Gary Chapman

If we're in a scene together, I want to give you something that allows your performance to be truthful. In football, if…

— Nnamdi Asomugha

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas…

— Jonathan Nolan

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or…

— Isabella Rossellini

Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be…

— Ada Limon

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Words cannot express how tired they are of being used by you.

— Anonymous

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

— Gloria Steinem

Words dont mean anything when your actions say another.

— Anonymous

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

— Ahdaf Soueif

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

— Paul Engle

Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.

— Roger Allam

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

— Robert Breault

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

— Larry Wall

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.”

— Ken Follett

“Amazed at the onslaught of words heard, explanations were given, causes and consequences all told.”

— Susan Bernhardt

“The point of language puts us in the same position as lightning.”

— Kim Rosenfield

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

— William Zinsser

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

— Thomas Middleditch