Language Quotes · Page 220

Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.

— Viggo Mortensen

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

— Winston Churchill

“Words are action, and sentences represent a person’s mental action and aspirations.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

— Roger Babson

Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak.

— William C. Bryant

I love you more than words can difine,feelings can express and thought can imagine.

— Elijah Musantu

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

— William Butler Yeats

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

— Rumi

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

— Anonymous

“The shortes word I know is "I" the sweetest word I know is "love" and the only thing that is important is…

— Reina Garcia

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

— Robert Burchfield

“Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire.”

— George W. Crane

Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.

— Elliot Page

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a…

— Arundhati Roy

“When you do not understand the language being spoken, you have two options. You can struggle against the isolation, or you can…

— Jodi Picoult

I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm…

— Robert Stone

“For in Abraham man had learned beforehand, and had been accustomed to follow the Word of God. For Abraham, according to his…

— The Church Fathers

It's the purest form of silver and our tagline is "Taking the 'except fors' out of movies." We're trying to make movies…

— Drew Waters

“One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing…

— George Saunders

Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights and separation…

— James Taranto

Writing is… being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling,…

— Mary Gaitskill

“In school, I hated poetry - those skinny, Malnourished poems that professors love; The bad grammar and dirty words that catch In…

— George Elliott Clarke

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active…

— Grace Paley

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

— E. B. White

“When it comes to words Mamma says, "If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said.”

— Annette Bridges

When we're the victims of insulting language and attacks, it's obviously going to evoke a response.

— Andrew Scheer

Words dont mean anything if you don't put meaning to them.

— Anonymous

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

A good word is better than silence and silence is better than evil talks.

— Anonymous

Sometimes it's the simplest words that means the most.

— Anonymous

“I can't believe these words are going to come out of my mouth, but here goes. Yep,”

— Terry Mayer

“Be a good listener, so your spoken words may be appropriate”

— Emmanuel Aluko

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

— Hilary Mantel

There is power in words. What you say is what you get.

— Zig Ziglar

Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

He who carries the word no with him will never be poor even when he is old.

— Vikrant Parsai

Remember... One kind word can Change someone's entire day!

— Ritu Ghatourey

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

— Anonymous

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

— Christopher Monckton