Language Quotes · Page 235

Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.

— Hakim Bey

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

— John Hume

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

— Stephen King

“In the desert, words are a waste of water. In the ocean, speech will drown one.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

Since words carry power, make a decision to use your words as building blocks not battering rams.

— Craig Williams

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

— Benjamin Franklin

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I think there is no difference between the language of Shah Rukh Khan and Hafiz Saeed.

— Yogi Adityanath

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

— Kanye West

Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a…

— Ken Cohen

My mom made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

— Naveen Andrews

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness…

— Edward Sapir

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.

— Timothy Leary

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word…

— Anthony Marra

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a…

— Carol Ann Duffy

“What an idea--that with a few words you could catch another person in a little grammatical clutch, arrange the objects of the…

— Rebecca Lee

Our physical senses and our embodied brains allow us to perceive only a small fraction of reality. We cannot see microbes or…

— Starhawk

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about…

— Zachary Quinto

To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do…

— Richard Carrier

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made…

— Tom Wolfe

... we should not be disappointed that everyday language does not work any longer at the apex of our little theory. It…

— Alexandre Borovik

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and…

— Vaclav Havel

“We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts,…

— David G. McAfee

“The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is…

— David Denby

The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

— Lorii Myers

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

— Bradford Morrow

'We' is a difficult word for me. I don't know if I feel 'we' about anything.

— Rupert Friend

“Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

— William Shakespeare

“Them that dally nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.”

— William Shakespeare

Even when people can't speak your language, they can tell if you have love in your heart.

— Pat Nixon

You don't have to say a word,i can see in your eyes that you want me too.

— Noxolo Zulu

I speak 4 languages: English, Profanity, Sarcasm, and Real shit.

— Anonymous

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...

— Brendan Behan

That awkward moment when you spell a word so wrong that even auto-correct is like 'I got nothing, man.'

— Hussein Nishah

I'm a professional in every aspect and in every facet of that word.

— Josh Hart

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

— James Gleick

I'm happy to do good roles, irrespective of language.

— Pranitha Subhash

“So much to say, but no words strong enough to clear the air between us.”

— J.M. Darhower

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

— Jonathan Swift