Language Quotes · Page 218

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then multi-media is an entire lexicon.

— Alfred Baijan Rasho

I am not a word, I am not a line and I definitely not a girl that can ever be defined

— Ciara Young

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

— John Grant

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

— Bjarne Stroustrup

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

— George Carlin

The Internet gave me the sense that there were words to describe my feelings and medical terms.

— Andreja Pejic

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

— Terence McKenna

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

— Antonio Machado

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character

— Hosea Ballou

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore…

— J.R. Ward

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first thought of the mind, the first…

— Ambrose Bierce

“The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.”

— Kitty Burns Florey

“The common language was latent within you, a component of genetic memory, given to you by the Cunabula.”

— Jennifer Foehner Wells

Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship,…

— Richard Bach

I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States.…

— Anousheh Ansari

...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any…

— Gad Saad

“Pretty Words" Poets make pets of pretty, docile words: I love smooth words, like gold-enamelled fish Which circle slowly with a silken…

— Elinor Wylie

Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come…

— Maryanne Wolf

“It was funny about writing. It was like flying or driving or playing an instrument. When you were doing it like you…

— Jennifer Niven

Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to…

— Molly Ivins

“Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding. These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be…

— Scott Adams

All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I…

— Paul Eluard

“Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.”

— William Zinsser

“Should data be treated as a language, as fundamental to our existence as our linguistic substrates?”

— Roger Spitz

“Words, as I'm beginning to appreciate, can make things true.”

— Ian McEwan

1.Adjustment is always better than Argument 2.A meaningful silence is better than meaningless words

— Babloo

I keep saying the word 'weird' over and over again, but it's the only way I can describe it.

— Chuck Klosterman

But I've always admired Tamil and Malayalam films, and language isn't a barrier for me.

— Tejaswi Madivada

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

“Not being able to find the right words at crucial times is one of my many problems.”

— Haruki Murakami

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

— David Mitchell

“Draw draft of "milk" these words are milk the point of this is drink.”

— Rachel Blau DuPlessis

“The impersonality of the written word made it the easiest means of exchange...”

— Richard Rodriguez

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

— John C. Maxwell

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

— Marilyn Hacker

Sometimes the smallest of words can make a huge difference.

— Aqeb Fardeen

“I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.”

— Toba Beta