Language Quotes · Page 200

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

— Rumi

Blame to find out the source not to be given their words

— Blasio Kajuna

Those are pretty strong words coming from Macaulay Culkins little brother!

— John Cena

“Thought's surface: word. Word's surface: gesture. Gesture's surface: skin. Skin's surface: shiver.”

— Vera Pavlova

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

We don't believe that you have to broadcast and use profanity. It shows a lack of a vocabulary really.

— Harry Clay Weaver

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

— Jimenez Lai

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

— Bernard Pivot

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

— Harold S. Geneen

Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.

— Reed Hundt

“The words hurt my throat a little – probably because I was swallowing my pride, and it didn’t taste so great.”

— Emma Winters

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

— Ramana Maharshi

“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing…

— Karen Swallow Prior

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

— James A. Baldwin

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

— Nancy Duarte

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was…

— Andrew Lam

Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence…

— Constance Hale

“Clearing his throat, he rumbled, "Miss Darling, a word if you please." "Sesquipedalian," she said, keeping her back towards him. The strange…

— A.C. Warneke

problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I 'do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once…

— Anonymous

“Being created in the image of our omnipotent God, our spoken words are potent. Speaking what we believe—even from ourselves to ourselves—is…

— Beth Moore

...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that…

— Aldous Huxley

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general…

— Umberto Eco

When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.”

— Ben Jonson

“A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin.”

— John Del Gaudio

“Words are not important in themselves, but as resonators for a center.”

— Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]

— Ovid

“Kindness is not about words. It isn’t spoken. It is about action. Kindness is a deed.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

— Sarita Choudhury

“In three words I can sum up all that I've learned about: It goes on.”

— Jessi Kirby

I think it is really important for everybody to have people who can speak your language.

— Timo Werner

I don't understand the words but I understand the actions

— Blacksonrap

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

— Joyce Meyer

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

— Robert Smithson

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

— Herbie Hancock

“Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.”

— Emma Donoghue

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

— Catherine Opie