Language Quotes · Page 191

The greatest secret in the world today is: The Word of God is the will of God!

— Dr Victor Paul Wierwille

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

— Temple Grandin

Sometimes, words can hurt a human more than a sword can.

— Anonymous

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

— Stendhal

“Our words create worlds, so we need to be careful what we say.”

— Allison Shorter

“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.”

— John Boyle O'Reilly

“They can be like the sun, words. They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”

— St. John of the Cross

“When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.”

— Tammy Kling

“In school we only learn to recognize the words and to spell but the application of these words to real life is…

— Truman Capote

“He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that…

— J.M. Coetzee

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than…

— Jeremy Brett

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's…

— Dolores Hitchens

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

— Jasper Fforde

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the…

— Ron Silliman

“He has his world and I have mine and we each speak our own kinds of English in them. But we also…

— John Humphrys

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children.…

— Steven Pinker

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned,…

— Edward T. Hall

It's already years ago now, but there's that South Korean music artist Psy, who had that hit song and it was a…

— Fred Armisen

“The language of the King James Bible is the language of patriarchy, of an instructed order, of richness as a form of…

— Adam Nicolson

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities:…

— James Hillman

“No, I have as yet said nothing, or, rather, said only bookish words... and in the end the logical thing would be…

— Vladimir Nabokov

In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by…

— Mike Scheidt

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or…

— Alexander Dreymon

“Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”

— Carolee Dean

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

— Sergio Leone

I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.

— Lil Nas X

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

— Azim Premji

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

— Khaled Hosseini

I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.

— John Flanagan

I have so many languages in my mind and it's something nice to be able to speak languages in the game.

— Andre Onana

“Some people are born with words flowing in their veins.”

— Margarita Engle

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

— Dick Cavett

Lips speak darkness in the midst of chaos. In love words speak light that overcomes the darkness.

— Jeremy Limn

Words have special powers...to lift up or put down...to heal or harm. Choose your words carefully.

— Anonymous

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

— Bible

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions dont speak. People speak, and people are loud.

— Jennette McCurdy

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain,

— Lisa Gerrard

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

The first word about you is that you received this life...

— Rob Bell