Language Quotes · Page 233

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

— David Mitchell

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

— Liza Donnelly

“About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.”

— Lauren Willig

If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

— William Shakespeare

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

— Barbara Tuchman

Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.

— LeCrae

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

— Peter Abelard

How can you believe on the word believe, when there is a lie in center ?

— Ritu Ghatourey

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give…

— E. B. White

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

— T. S. Eliot

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to…

— Clive James

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and…

— Rowan Atkinson

“Some words are invisible—namely spoken words—but that only means I read them with my ears. But people are rude, and they often…

— Jarod Kintz

Accents aren't accents, they're language It's almost like a code. Because that's the key to who you are: it's how you express…

— Rege-Jean Page

Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw…

— Tarryn Fisher

The most problematic word in America is the word "problematic." It's a wuss word used by people to silence language without actually…

— Greg Gutfeld

A dream set would include songs by other artists like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and other favorites. More obscure Heart songs like…

— Nancy Wilson

The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for…

— William S. Burroughs

Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything…

— Susie Dent

Good, well-defined, well-honed art is not a foreign language. You can sell it to people. You just have to move your ego…

— Van Hunt

We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret,…

— Walter Abish

“As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires. . . . And I…

— Roland Barthes

As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly,…

— Dave Hickey

“Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.”

— Anthony Burgess

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

— Elfriede Jelinek

Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.

— Rosalia

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

— Jim Broadbent

I think, whoever is making great films in whatever language is likely to do well.

— Sargun Mehta

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

— George Henry Lewes

MARRIAGE, A word which always means commitment -- but so does insanity;

— Nikhil Saluja

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

— Karl Lagerfeld

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

— G. E. M. Anscombe

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

— Buddha

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

— Jules Renard

I am not a word, I am not a line, I am not a girl that can ever be defined.

— Nicki Minaj

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

— Jack London

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

— Francis Bacon

“Words are Powerful Tools. Just one can destroy an entire Nation, so use them wisely.”

— A.M. Sawyer