Language Quotes · Page 206

“You don’t know a language, you live it. You don’t learn a language, you get used to it.”

— Benny Lewis

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

— John Oliver

“Your pen must not only create words, it must carve a story into something touching human or beyond.”

— Nyhterides

You got a way with words, you keep me smiling, even when it hurts.

— Shania Twain

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

— John Oliver

All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

— Kiki Dimoula

“Any dictionary, no matter how well made, was destined to go out of date. Words were living things.”

— Shion Miura

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

— Keith Crown

“for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning…

— Alexandre Dumas

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

— William Gibson

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the…

— Gertrude Stein

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it,…

— David Crystal

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

— Saint Augustine

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“He purred the words, as if his tongue was lazy and had all the time in the world to wrap around each…

— Blue Kincaid

When Words Fail.. Action Speaks.. When Action Fails.. Eyes Speak.. When Eyes Fail.. Tears Speak.. And When Everything Else Fails.. 'Silence' Speaks.

— Anonymous

I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound…

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you…

— David Plotz

“In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of…

— Rebecca Solnit

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible…

— John Ruskin

“Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is…

— Mort W. Lumsden

[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and…

— Erich Fromm

“Everything has its way of speaking and telling things worth knowing. Even the little grass-blades have their way of saying things as…

— Julia Peterkin

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

— Nana Mouskouri

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

— Frank Luntz

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

— Martial

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

— Confucius

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

— Elie Wiesel

If it be a question of words and names - I will be no judge of such matters

— Bible

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

— Ambrose Bierce

Bette Midler can say four-letter words and make you love it.

— Liberace

“One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.”

— Voltaire

I'm tired of pretending that your words are real when your actions speaks a different language.

— Usman Ismaheel

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

— Carl Sandburg

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

— Guy Deutscher

Words matter. Especially if you're kicking someone's ass in words with friends.

— Bob Saget

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

— Jerzy Kosinski

“Listen to the language of the trees they speak in silence learn that alphabet.”

— Christina Strigas

“Do that thing you do where you use too many words to say something simple and confuse the issue.”

— Leigh Bardugo