Language Quotes · Page 248

Man is known by company he keeps and language he speeks.

— Sachin

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

— Lily Tomlin

I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.

— Wladimir Klitschko

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

— Hakim Bey

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

— Kenneth Burke

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

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

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

— John Hume

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

— Daniel Tammet

My place is cemented in Malayalam films. Malayalam is not my language and it felt alien to me. But for them, I…

— Meghana Raj

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of…

— Donna Tartt

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny…

— Jose Saramago

“Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in…

— Anonymous

We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and…

— Ashley Greene

Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to…

— John Gallagher, Jr

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives…

— Lionel Richie

“(on the word "fuck") 'Oh, come on, Mum,' I sighed at her protest. 'It's just an old Anglo-Saxon word for the female…

— Simon Pegg

There's a lot of different styles of hypnosis. There's conversational hypnosis, which, even though we joke about it, politicians use conversational hypnosis.…

— Keith Barry

“The next night, alone in the tent, Laurent said: 'As we draw closer to the border, I think it would be safer--more…

— S.U. Pacat

Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates…

— Walter Benjamin

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I…

— Clarence Darrow

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside…

— James Cromwell

A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you…

— Clay Aiken

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in…

— Kate Beckinsale

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

— Stephen King

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

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

— Craig Williams

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

— Bradford Morrow

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

— Yogi Adityanath

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

— Lorii Myers

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

'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

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

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

— Josh Hart

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

— Brendan Behan