Language Quotes · Page 243

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

— Kenneth Koch

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.”

— Anthony West

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

— Chelsea Clinton

In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.

— Donna Jo Napoli

Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.

— John Newlove

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

— Marina Warner

Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

If you can't find right words for certain situations, Just give a Smile Because words may confuse but a smile always convinces

— Ritu Ghatourey

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the…

— Ernst Toller

I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least…

— Rude Jude

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they…

— Edna Ferber

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

— Peter Elbow

Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyous words in the language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off…

— Elise M. Boulding

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

— William Safire

“And adab towards language means the recognition and acknowledgement of the rightful and proper place of every word in a written or…

— Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud

“Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through…

— Suzy Kassem

I was talking to a friend of mine who's a teacher in Iowa and, you know, she teaches kids - English is…

— Margaret Hoover

I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of…

— Henry Beston

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he…

— Thomas Merton

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out…

— David Mamet

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome…

— Annie Proulx

I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism…

— Will Leitch

I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.

— Terry Jones

“I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words”

— Oscar Wilde

“I’m so sorry,” I said again, though I knew they were the most useless words in the world.”

— Wendy Higgins

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

— David Hare

What ever the word of God can't give to you, you don't need it and it does not exist

— Bishop Mike Okonkwo

A playlist can be very versatile, almost like a programming language.

— Daniel Ek

“People like to hear words like pleasure and decadent. They think of Roman orgies or chocolate”

— M.E. Thomas

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

— Jack Gilbert

'Trust me' is the word most commonly used to betray someone.

— Anonymous

Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.

— Cheryl Richardson

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

— Adrienne Rich

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

— Vallabhbhai Patel

“Grammar A stratum of consciousness Leading to beauty”

— Muriel Barbery

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

— Doris Humphrey

The three most dangerous words in medicine: in my experience.

— Mark Crislip