Language Quotes · Page 239

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

— Stanley Kunitz

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

— Judy Woodruff

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

— Cyndi Lauper

“ Sorry is a useless word. It should be thrown out of the dictionary.”

— Liane Shaw

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

— Larry Wall

“Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language”

— Munia Khan

Ghetto language. Bathroom = Baafrumm. Refrigerator = Fridgerataa. Remote control = Moken troll.

— Anonymous

“Flowers have a language that everyone can understand—the language of beauty and love.”

— Debasish Mridha

“So what you're saying is you can't explain it." "I did explain it." "No, you used nouns and verbs together in a…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda…

— Elizabeth Drew

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than…

— James Earl Jones

I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

“I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling.…

— Aimee Bender

The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words.…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think the best developers can learn any language; if they are a good developer, they can learn whatever. But the raw…

— David Cohen

“Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which is the bean itself,…

— David Bergen

“She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.…

— Lauren Oliver

It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment…

— Henri Poincare

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of…

— Kevin Barry

I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of…

— Jaume Cabre

I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back…

— Blake Butler

Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these…

— William Rowan Hamilton

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He…

— Ornette Coleman

Even as the words came out of my mouth, my heart was dying a million deaths.

— Anthony Kiedis

From the beginning, music has been the chosen way to express feelings that words alone can't.

— Mack Wilberg

“I bet you don't hear no a lot." "It's a dirty word. I'm not a fan of it.”

— Katee Robert

“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.”

— Will Durant

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

— Thomas Merton

“we swim in our second language, we breathe in our first”

— Adam Gopnik

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

— M F K Fisher

“I don’t have the words. I want to touch her, but I don’t deserve it.”

— Holly Black

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

— Vaclav Havel

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

— Gregory Bateson

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

— Lisa See

Don't use time or words carelessly, neither can be retrieved

— Anonymous

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

— Noam Chomsky

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.

— Patricia Garfield

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

— Mark Twain