Language Quotes · Page 238

“I speak many languages, but I only understand the language of kindness.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.”

— Idries Shah

Some people never understand the effects their word have on me~~~

— Anonymous

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

— Gary Johnson

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

— George R. R. Martin

“There were some things gestures could communicate that words never could.”

— SM Reine

“so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world”

— Lucille Clifton

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a…

— Matthea Harvey

“Was it possible to live outside language? Naturally this question did not address itself to her in words, or as a single…

— Arundhati Roy

My words are not great, my words are not big,they're real, so if you want to do something great and something big,…

— Anonymous

I was born and raised in Chandigarh, so it isn't like I didn't know the language. But Punjabi isn't my first language,…

— Sargun Mehta

“For many writers the goal is a thousand words a day. For me, just give me one thought, and the words will…

— Garry Fitchett

“Say it." "Say what?" "Tell me what you told me earlier." "I love you." "That's all I ever need to hear." "Those…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection -…

— Umberto Eco

We run into each other and it's like we don't even speak the same language. I guess people always going through changes.

— Mac Miller

I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master…

— Derek Walcott

I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson -…

— Don Cheadle

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to…

— Matt Taibbi

Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who…

— Michael Ellsberg

“That's just like the manual says," said Witherwax. "If we want to have international brotherhood, we gotta get a language that everybody…

— Fletcher Pratt

The seven of us on board [the Space Shuttle] represented five different religions. But we were all agreed - it just doesn't…

— Jake Garn

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those…

— Salman Rushdie

“And I know now words are my Tingalayo. Words are my brilliance.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

— Lao Tzu

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

— Conor McPherson

I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me

— Paulo Coelho

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

— Rachel Cohn

Audiences want to watch good films, even if it is dubbed in another language.

— Tamannaah

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

— Connie Sellecca

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

— George Santayana

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

— Douglas Adams

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.

— Marvin J. Ashton

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

— Anonymous

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

— Steven Wright

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

— John Wesley

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

— Jenny Weber