Language Quotes · Page 224

A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Love is the most important word in the English language--and the most confusing.”

— Gary Chapman

“Her attachment to language was earthy, physical, and immediate. Pretty words you could eat.”

— Elizabeth Winder

I once dreamed that the word 'eight' was actually 'oat'.

— Nick Mohammed

“The Holy Bible is the Spirit of God exposed to humanity in the Language of Heaven.”

— Felix Wantang

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

— John Green

Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.

— Roy H. Williams

“I had lines inside me-a string of guiding lights. I had language.”

— Jeanette Winterson

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

— Lister Sinclair

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I…

— Patch Adams

“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.”

— Davis Bunn

I experienced many moments when we were able to overcome language barriers. When they like something during our shows, American audiences would…

— Yui Mizuno

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a…

— Finley Peter Dunne

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

— Mark Pagel

Regional films have a great impact on the audience, especially because of the proximity of the language with the people.

— Mukesh Tiwari

Sometimes words is not necessary... Silence speaks more.. A hug worth a thousand voices... An actions shout louder... Instinct and feelings do…

— Janet Reolope

When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language.…

— Miley Cyrus

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false… For truth, properly considered, is about…

— Errol Morris

“English is only a weak second language, so that the third language--which at the moment is getting the most play, since French…

— Apol Lejano-Massebieau

In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within…

— Michel Foucault

Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount…

— E. M. Forster

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has…

— Stromae

“Among both the learned and the not so learned it is accepted that poetry can be the language of the emotions; what…

— R.D. Fitzgerald

“...but she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?"…

— Gregory Maguire

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

— Marcus du Sautoy

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

— Anonymous

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

— Mitch Albom

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

— Emma Donoghue

Words are fine, but the most important thing is what happens on the pitch.

— Claudio Ranieri

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Pretty words are not always true. True words are not always pretty.

— Blossom

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

— Idina Menzel

I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.

— Joni Mitchell

“You do not know how I have yearned to hear those words.”

— H.P. Mallory

Let us not love with words or speech, but with actions and truth.

— Anonymous

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.

— Sonia Choquette

“the message or the word regarding His way is the gospel.”

— Witness Lee

“Someday is a dangerous word. Sometimes, it meant to be Never.”

— Harsh Gupta

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

— Raymond Aron