Language Quotes · Page 209

One cannot say with words what music says without them.

— Steven Feld

'Bridgerton' is the only B' word I am allowed to say - I am not going to talk about the other B'…

— Rege-Jean Page

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

— Gustave Flaubert

“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.”

— Dorothy Parker

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

— Learned Hand

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

— Rick Renzi

It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is MUCH BETTER for the Word to get into us.

— David J. Stewart

“I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.”

— Beth Revis

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses…

— Carl Maria von Weber

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between…

— Dean Koontz

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

“She is in search of a language that is tactile, palatial, and self-immolating—a language that will correspond to her latent desire to…

— Jackie Wang

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they…

— Brenda Lee

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

— Eric Hoffer

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets…

— Judith Butler

I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words…

— Hunter S. Thompson

If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let…

— Temple Grandin

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words…

— George R. R. Martin

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered…

— Ellen Glasgow

“You may think that you don't need to worry about actually learning the grammar rules because spell check and grammar check will…

— Jenny Baranick

We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement…

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

“You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”

— Al Capone

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

— Barbara Kruger

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Words are like moments, we can have thousands of them to find one sentence of brilliance.”

— Zachary Koukol

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

— Mos Def

“Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want.”

— Alex Himelfarb

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

— Wilfred Funk

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

— Bernard Williams

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

— Dennis Potter

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak”

— George Orwell

I want to do good films, with good content. I am not selecting projects based on language.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

— Roger Zelazny

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Hero is not the word I would use to describe myself on August 20. The word I would use is vessel .”

— Antoinette Tuff

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

— Susie Dent