Language Quotes · Page 215

“Few subjects are inherently dull: language is where dullness or liveliness resides.”

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.'

— Dorothy Parker

I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.

— Pavel Datsyuk

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

— Chelsea Hobbs

You are beautiful without words, for me you are my everything. I will miss you.

— Anonymous

“Profanity is the use of strong words by weak people.”

— Anonymous

For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.

— Kate Mosse

First you must have the images, then come the words.

— Robert James Waller

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

— Ray Kurzweil

“I write these words to leave behind, a part of me that I could find, when time and its ways become unkind,…

— Harpreet Singh Nanda

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must…

— Gertrude Stein

“Every time we speak to people, we have the opportunity to change their lives forever, if only we could find the perfect…

— Kalin Ringkvist

I think when you play with the same defence, you sort of understand each other's body language, and you read off each…

— Wojciech Szczesny

No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was…

— Anthony Lane

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry…

— Teju Cole

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

— Ron Jeffries

It just seemed to me so utterly wrong to credit someone's work just for the fact that this someone migrated from one…

— Sasa Stanisic

We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.…

— Martin Luther

“This is my song for Gabriel, The Angel of the Word, I've sung to you so many times, This time I may…

— Philip Dodd

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are…

— Chaim Potok

“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and…

— Guy Davenport

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in…

— Salman Rushdie

Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or…

— Tryon Edwards

The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book…

— Matt de la Pena

A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!

— Berton Braley

The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.

— John Hookham Frere

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

— Samuel Johnson

“There are some feelings, and actions, for which words are utterly useless.”

— James Patterson

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

— Leo Rosten

“And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.”

— Khalil Gibran

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

— George Will

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

— Arthur Miller

I miss you so much, Words cannot explain what you mean to Me.. :(

— Becka Miller

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

— Anonymous

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

— Leonardo Sciascia

“Lonely. I hated that word more than any other in the dictionary.”

— Pepper Winters

So many words I could use, yet none seem to be able to describe exactly how I feel about yo

— Anonymous

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Amorite ... it is the oldest Northwest Semitic language yet discovered.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos