Language Quotes · Page 223

“He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Farewell is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises nothing.”

— Kate Dicamillo

You say you love me, but they just sound like words to me...

— Crapp

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

— John the Apostle

Sometimes things that are so hard for us to say, are the words that we mean the most..:)

— Ritu

All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.

— Shiv Nadar

“Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.”

— David Mitchell

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

— Moliere

“People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract…

— Dada Bhagwan

The only language i'v grown to understand and respect is the the language of love, and only lovers can truly understand this…

— Noxolo Zulu

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language…

— Ismail Merchant

“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced…

— Darach Ó Séaghdha

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not…

— Gautama Buddha

Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book,…

— Fred Kaplan

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a…

— Walter Darby Bannard

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life…

— S. I. Hayakawa

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She’d just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no…

— Penn Williamson

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By…

— Noam Chomsky

“Around a child, people come and go, objects appear and are taken away, surroundings take shape and disintegrate. And no explanation is…

— Peter Hoeg

God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place…

— Francis Schaeffer

“Quote' is a verb; 'quotation', a noun. Lazy tongues attached to empty minds have taken the distinction from us. Before we lament,…

— D.F. Downing

What is a revenge? Actually that word is not in my dictionary.

— Chinier

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

— Salman Rushdie

Always speak sweet words, so that If you have to eat your words back, they don't taste bitter.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.”

— Ken Bugul

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.

— Anonymous

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

— Gaston Bachelard

So classy, making silly words up and being an immature bitch.

— Anonymous

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

— Theodore Bikel

“Grammar is The Forbidden City of American writing.”

— Wade Hobbs

There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.

— Diana Palmer

“Batting is like another language for Sachin, he always answers his critics by this language.”

— Amit Kalantri

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

— J. R. R. Tolkien

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

— Ambrose Bierce

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

— Nick Cave

“Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary,”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

— Claude Levi-Strauss