Language Quotes · Page 192

“What you have not published, you can destroy. The word once sent forth can never be recalled.”

— Horace

Rock has its own vocabulary, but you can approach it with freedom.

— John Popper

“People who know their worth understand the power of their own words.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”

— Lisa Fantino

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

— Confucius

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

— Tim Conway

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

— Barbara Holland

Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined

— Nicki Minaj

My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to…

— Cassandra Clare

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

“Learning a language promoted the first tender shoots of intercultural understanding. People became familiar with previously alien concepts and, as a consequence,…

— Fay Abernethy

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

— Douglas Crockford

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new…

— Marshall McLuhan

I'd like to move to some country with a language that I dont understand, and live there for the rest of my…

— Anonymous

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy

There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an…

— David Wong

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is…

— Jacques Ellul

“The language of distinction ceases to be available; is no longer available. We must search CD Rom for meanings which once were…

— Fay Weldon

In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in…

— Herb Boyd

What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The oldest cliché in the world is about "what's lost in translation," but you don't very often read much intelligent about what's…

— Sam Hamill

“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does…

— Aaron Belz

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I…

— Josh Gad

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

— Alexander Lukashenko

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.

— Donatella Versace

I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.

— Stephon Marbury

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

— Lilian Jackson Braun

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

— Marcel Marceau

“Habits, not ideas, are the programming language of human beings”

— Danny Dover

“Beware of those bearing grief in comprehensible words.”

— John Mateer

“Language is a key. I felt so many doors were opening to me.”

— Ann Clare LeZotte

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

— Tim Bedore

“The value of words it's not in what they enclose, but in what they release.”

— Giorgio Angelo Livraga

Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.

— Jan Potocki

“You can't see other's point of view when you have only one language.”

— Frank Smith

If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.

— Seth Godin

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

— John Locke

“When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor