Language Quotes · Page 221

When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

— Anonymous

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

— Norton Juster

“Language, loose language, vague language becomes an out. Things happen.”

— Rebecca Solnit

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

— Bruno Tonioli

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

— Adrienne Rich

Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method.

— Grey Livingston

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

— Christopher Buckley

It's very important for humans to see dance, it's a language that everybody understands.

— Sergei Polunin

Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies…

— Leon Russell

It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language…

— Justin Simien

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially…

— Raymond Chandler

“I can weave words together and create magic,it's like knitting and crocheting words with pen and paper, some call it Poetry.”

— Charmaine J Forde

“Emotions expressed cannot be recalled Hoard that most precious word and thought Do not declare in haste for once released words cannot…

— Donal Peter Buckley

The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the…

— Wole Soyinka

“there is [...] a last even of last times of saying if you do not love me I shall not be loved…

— Samuel Beckett

“Noam Chomsky – linguist. Says humans have innate grammar: we are born with grammatical structures already in our brains which help us…

— Anonymous

I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the…

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

People don't even realize the power the mind has over the body in the way you perceive things. Change your thoughts, change…

— Miranda Kerr

I mean, just the safety position, linebackers, you have to be able to communicate. You can't do sign language out there. You…

— Patrick Chung

Words are not (except in theirown little corner) facts or things;we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them…

— John Austin

When you speak in other tongues, no one understands what you're saying, because you're speaking to God. It's a direct communication between…

— Chris Oyakhilome

“After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its…

— George Orwell

My parents were entirely unpredictable and what they said very unreliable, which meant I became very attuned to the range of other…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I understand that in people's eyes, classical music is kind of a lost and dying art, but in my eyes, it's like,…

— Owen Pallett

“Fate... What a bleak and meaningless word to express something no one can explain.”

— Y. Correa

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

— S. I. Hayakawa

“People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.”

— Maribel C. Pagan

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

— Aneurin Bevan

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

— Khalil Gibran

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

— Kató Lomb

Every time I see the word Explain on an exam, I die a little inside

— Anonymous

“Didn't the old man know how words carry colors and sounds into the flesh”

— Anaïs Nin

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner

Words dont mean anything if actions dont support them

— Anonymous

“The mirror does not lie. It has been taught to speak in the wrong language.”

— Nikita Datar

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

— Paula Malcomson

As long as I like the script, speak the language and feel interested in the plot, I can play any role.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

— Huey Newton

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

— Confucius

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

— Buck Henry