Language Quotes · Page 207

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

— Rudyard Kipling

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,

— Ingvar Kamprad

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

— Eavan Boland

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

— Ambrose Bierce

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

— Thomas Keating

Can't shouldn't be in a mans vocabulary, because when a man says can't he ain't a man.

— Anonymous

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

— Jess Phillips

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

— Margaret Atwood

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more…

— Arca

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

— Deborah Tannen

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so…

— David Brooks

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are…

— Edward Sapir

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through…

— Paul Tillich

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a…

— Shirley Jackson

I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always…

— Melissa McCarthy

Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The internet, like social media, seems to me to depend on how you use it, where you spend your time on it.…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have…

— Madhur Bhandarkar

My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art…

— Alan Bishop

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We…

— David Levithan

Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories…

— George Elliott Clarke

More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the…

— George Washington Carver

Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love…

— Alex Kendrick

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

— Henri Nouwen

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

— Michael Showalter

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

— Tony Judt

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

— Antonin Artaud

Music don't have no color or no face. It's a universal language.

— Pimp C

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath israrely found.

— Alexander Pope

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

— Martha Graham

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

— Pythagoras

Words that do not create images should be discarded.

— Gerry Spence

In the beginning was the word and the word was with and God

— Collins Adoma Asante

Words don't define me. Actions, my faith, and the strength of my relationships and family do.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

Sorry can be the hardest word when you know you're wrong.

— Tarkan

“A man isn't as good as his word, he's as good as his Actions.”

— James Miller