Language Quotes · Page 232

“Be aware that every word you know is going to try to sneak into your manuscript.”

— Judith Ross Enderle

“I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”

— David Levithan

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

— Paulo Coelho

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

— Aeschylus

“You believe in things you cannot see and speak a language that only hearts know.”

— Charles Martin

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

— Mason Cooley

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

— Frank Muir

I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

— Gallagher

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it…

— Simon Van Booy

I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being…

— Simon McBurney

A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as…

— Hal Abelson

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I…

— A. S. Byatt

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

— Jerome Stern

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which…

— Kenneth L. Pike

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I have officially decided that I will document every word I say. Not for the reason that I need to remember them,…

— Zoe B

I have been in countries where I don't know a word of the language. I tried to practice my French as much…

— Kevin Kline

“On the first day of school, a first-grade teacher tells her class they’re not babies anymore. They have to use grown up…

— John Locke

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room…

— Andrew Clements

Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a…

— Zoketsu Norman Fischer

There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a…

— Anne Waldman

Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing…

— Karen Russell

We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words,…

— Mervyn Peake

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

— Michael Lewis

“the misery of war represented the world’s only truly universal language. Its”

— Omar El Akkad

“A perfectly placed word is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”

— Louise Benson

“not thing is possible , the word it self say im possible .”

— Falimawit

“Words were not things you could control. Not always.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Words aren’t needed—not when our bodies are screaming at each other. ”

— Anonymous

What's the word, I'm the word on the street. Ain't nobody hotter than me, broads wish they was me.

— Teyana Taylor

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

— Massimo Vignelli

The religion is what you are doing and words are nothing like air.

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

— Bart Stupak

I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

— Karin Slaughter

“Every word that i utter had already been said in the spirit realm.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

We need to get the word 'normal' out of our vocabulary.

— Eddie Kingston

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

— Terry Tempest Williams

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

— Jerry Garcia