Language Quotes · Page 250

Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.

— Rosalia

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

— Jim Broadbent

I think, whoever is making great films in whatever language is likely to do well.

— Sargun Mehta

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

— Elfriede Jelinek

“English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.”

— Anthony Burgess

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

— George Henry Lewes

MARRIAGE, A word which always means commitment -- but so does insanity;

— Nikhil Saluja

An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which.

— G. E. M. Anscombe

I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and…

— David James Duncan

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or…

— Anonymous

You pass a poem to the audience through the words as embodied literally by the rest of your human form. And the…

— Michael Rosen

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior…

— Anonymous

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

“The loudest Of all languages Is also the most Silent of all languages And that is the language Spoken by tears...”

— Chase Von

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

— Terence McKenna

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary…

— Isaac Asimov

I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are…

— Miriam Toews

The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I…

— Max Richter

The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the…

— Sally Potter

“By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that 'Noah's boy' was a slice…

— Bill Bryson

I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then…

— Joss Whedon

It is noble in its administration: to think and let think, beyond the narrow contracted prejudices of bitter sectarians in these modern…

— Harry S. Truman

One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who…

— Alessandra Stanley

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

— Buddha

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

— Jules Renard

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

— Francis Bacon

I am not a word, I am not a line, I am not a girl that can ever be defined.

— Nicki Minaj

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

— Jack London

“Words are Powerful Tools. Just one can destroy an entire Nation, so use them wisely.”

— A.M. Sawyer

Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me.

— Anonymous

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“You're perfect for me,' I whispered in my own language.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“...I realize words are never enough; they stutter and cleave to the roof of my mouth.”

— Pat Conroy

Language is just a communication tool; it is the content that decides the fate of a film.

— Ram Gopal Varma

I think my body language and how I carry myself speaks for me as a person.

— Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

“Be thoughtful with your words. Once said, they can never be retracted.”

— Emmanuel Auko

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

— Harry Bridges

Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.

— Robert McCrum