Language Quotes · Page 269

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

— Anthony Burgess

“Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.”

— Bryant McGill

“Farewell is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises nothing.”

— Kate Dicamillo

“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.”

— Shelly Crane

To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.

— Margaret Wander Bonanno

“Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.”

— Gina Barreca

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

— Walter Savage Landor

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

— Portia de Rossi

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and…

— Hilaire Belloc

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in…

— Grace Cavalieri

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how…

— Squarepusher

By studying psychology i want to be a better actor. There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know…

— Shia LaBeouf

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked…

— George Orwell

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet…

— Joseph Brodsky

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say…

— Anthony Geary

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states;…

— Haile Selassie

The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough…

— Alan Bishop

I'm very concerned with questions of language. This is what I think of when I think of myself as a writer: I'm…

— Don DeLillo

People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves.…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for…

— Seneca the Younger

“The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…

— Thomas Paine

My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the…

— Clive James

“He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You say you love me, but they just sound like words to me...

— Crapp

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

— John the Apostle

What is a revenge? Actually that word is not in my dictionary.

— Chinier

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes things that are so hard for us to say, are the words that we mean the most..:)

— Ritu

“Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.”

— David Mitchell

All businessmen - how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.

— Shiv Nadar

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

— Moliere

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

— Gaston Bachelard

Always speak sweet words, so that If you have to eat your words back, they don't taste bitter.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“The only language all human beings understand is the language of humanity.”

— Ken Bugul

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.

— Anonymous

So classy, making silly words up and being an immature bitch.

— Anonymous

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

— Theodore Bikel

“Grammar is The Forbidden City of American writing.”

— Wade Hobbs