Language Quotes · Page 230

That's stupid; people thinking with words but suffer with scenes.

— Erdem

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can do much worse

— Madi

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

— Petrarch

Parents ought to try to learn the language teenagers speak, and they ought to listen to teenage music.

— Joey Heatherton

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

— Wole Soyinka

“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

— Pitbull

If you have to respect in the world speak the same language,understand the world

— Mak_786

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the…

— Raymond Burr

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I…

— Anne Sexton

“Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was…

— Robert Lane Greene

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

— Ambrose Bierce

Never tell me the words, I love you, if you don't mean it because I won't believe it. I'd rather you just…

— Anonymous

I worked with Mauricio Pochettino and even as a player, he had certain mannerisms and his body language. There was so much…

— Ryan Mason

“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...”

— George Orwell

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

— Christopher Lasch

Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one…

— David Starkey

Actors are always being asked to speak. Sometimes there is a well-honed script, often there is not. But we are well-practised in…

— Maureen Lipman

What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with…

— Michelle Alexander

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business…

— Robert Menzies

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language,…

— John Berryman

In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many…

— Red Smith

Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the…

— Stanislaw Lem

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter…

— Theodore Dreiser

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

Words don't attract girls, it's the actions you prove them does.

— âebâl-s

The moment when you don't know the words to use for the way you feel.

— David Vigil

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

— Etty Hillesum

“A word is enough for the wise, but talkativeness is not enough for the foolish”

— Joy Clinton

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

— Stephan Pastis

“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”

— Anonymous

“I took the words from valleys and streams I took my inspirations from journeys and dreams”

— Kenny Lord

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

— Jaromir Jagr

People say I use foul language. I learnt swear words only from my father and YGP.

— Radha Ravi

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.

— Charles Ives

I don't think some people know how bad words can hurt they really don't ...

— Anonymous

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

— John Milton