Language Quotes · Page 199

“Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.”

— Thea van Diepen

Turning feelings into words can help us process and overcome adversity.

— Sheryl Sandberg

“Words came to him and intoxicated him as they came.”

— C.S. Lewis

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

— Silvio Berlusconi

“Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.”

— Robyn Schneider

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

— Anonymous

“A cut. That's what I felt. Words can cut, slice, like a razor.”

— Megan Miranda

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

— PSY

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages…

— Charles Taylor

We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's…

— Wynton Marsalis

“The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if…

— Moshe Seidel

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs…

— William C. Brown

“Curse my words. I have always been told that I have a way with words, that I can weave an image into…

— Lore Stormrider

“Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.”

— Mohit.K.Misra

Bitcoin is great as a form of digital money, but its scripting language is too weak for any kind of serious advanced…

— Vitalik Buterin

I just want to say that 'Minari' is about a family. It's a family trying to learn how to speak a language…

— Lee Isaac Chung

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important…

— Troy Perry

I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.…

— James Joyce

“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast…

— Scott Aukerman

“This is the pre-verbal language that linguists call Mentalese. Hardly a language, more a matrix of shifting patterns, consolidating and compressing meaning…

— Ian McEwan

The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts…

— Mary McCarthy

“In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to…

— Kevin Crossley-Holland

One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go…

— Djibril Diop Mambety

“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.”

— Winston Churchill

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

— Charlemagne

We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.

— Maxine Waters

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

— David Crystal

Your words mean nothing to me now that you are out of my life now

— SAVANNAH J

My language is part of my culture, and I'm not gonna have someone change that.

— Ruben Gallego

It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.

— Thomas a Kempis

I think it keeps your brain moving faster, singing in another language.

— Thalia

[My style in three words] youthful, sweet, and diverse.

— Melanie Martinez

“The Word says that God will never give you more than you can bear. Never.”

— E.N. Joy

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

— Terence McKenna

“My eyes speak another language, you just need super powers to read it”

— RJ Yolande Mendes

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

— Maya Angelou

“Two most powerful words you can ever say.” His friend asks, “What’s that?”“I’m sorry.”

— Faleena Hopkins

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

— Dan Simmons

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

— Noam Chomsky