Language Quotes · Page 189

“why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words?”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“..i spill into the kind of silence only Khalil Gibran would understand.”

— Sanober Khan

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

— Peter Shaffer

Your thoughts, words and actions express the qualities of your mind.

— Terry Mark

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

— Hemant Mehta

It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!

— Rachel Vincent

* Drunken words speak volumes of truth that some sober mouths don't speak *

— Nishan Panwar

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal…

— Michael Salu

“[T]he 'subject-in-process' [is] a term I use heuristically to capture the idea that subjectivity is constituted (by language, discourse, or power), inessential…

— Moya Lloyd

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

— Eyvind Kang

“But there are some times when words are necessary - when explanations are needed that mere gestures cannot convey.”

— Sarah J. Maas

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount…

— Fran Lebowitz

Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much…

— Babatunde Adebimpe

“Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the…

— Terry Jones

You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words…

— Toni Morrison

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends…

— Edward Sapir

“But since you bring it up, Didier, you know what I think of language? That it’s a fake horizon and there’s something…

— Rachel Kushner

“Oh, good,” he muttered. “We’re going to discuss it now.” “No discussion,” she said. Her mind was quite clear now, as though…

— Loretta Chase

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time…

— Cornel West

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of…

— Mark Twain

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and,…

— Jessye Norman

How can diverse Americans become "one people"? I believe that one path is for us to pursue the study of the past…

— Ronald Takaki

But still it's like I said, when you hop in a cab in Italy and the guy doesn't speak English, uhh, you…

— Vinnie Paul

I love learning things, whether it's a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.

— Rupert Friend

I always substitute the word 'feedback' for 'failure.'

— Peter Jones

“Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.”

— Donald Barthelme

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

— Caitlin Thomas

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.

— Larry Wall

When you say the word 'Neymar' around the world, everyone knows who he is and what he does.

— Paul Pogba

“People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World”

— Paulo Coelho

One person's comments can't bring down the entire Bhojpuri community or language!

— Ravi Kishan

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

— Paulo Coelho

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

— Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is not merely a word. It is a state of mind.

— Mohanlal

“Words flooded like the storm's surge in a wild burst of anger that took me utterly by surprise.”

— Kate Elliott

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

— Honore de Balzac

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

— Walter Savage Landor