Language Quotes · Page 252

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

— Judy Woodruff

“ 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

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

— Debasish Mridha

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

— Munia Khan

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

— Anonymous

“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

“Lilac makes on occasion a sound between a sniff and a snort that's as damning as all improper words in the language…

— Leslie Ford

“Be mindful of the words in your mind and in your mouth. Choose to use an affirming and positive vocabulary because your…

— Susan C. Young

The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grapsed, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a…

— Chuang Tzu

“Words would not decscribe what I'm seeing. I try to hold my tongue but it's useless. She makes my heart scream color.”

— Barcelona

I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from.

— Greta Gerwig

“To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty…

— Jude Nutter

“Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost…

— Donna Tartt

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Language and emotions are too easily misread. For example, laughing can mean many things: laughing with you or at you. Does that…

— Michio Kaku

I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time.…

— Rudolf Flesch

Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering…

— Barbara Coloroso

Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else…

— Charles Darwin

“Language skill requires a bit of knowledge about how we answer the question: How do you know that Blumph is true? Plus…

— Mary B. Thompson

The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as…

— Frank Luntz

This book [ "Win"] is based on the interviews with three dozen Fortune 400 - or Forbes 400, the richest people, and…

— Frank Luntz

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

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

— Thomas Merton

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

— Will Durant

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

— M F K Fisher

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

— Adam Gopnik

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

— Holly Black

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

— Gregory Bateson

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

— Vaclav Havel

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

— Lisa See

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

— Patricia Garfield

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mark Twain

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

— Angela Duckworth

“A person's assumptions reveal who they are, more than the words they utter.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman