Language Quotes · Page 276

“All our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.”

— Amos Oz

Dear Diary, Today I used my words, and they set me free.

— Anonymous

Irrespective of the language and industry, what I seek from a project is good story and role.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can do much worse

— Madi

That's stupid; people thinking with words but suffer with scenes.

— Erdem

Parents ought to try to learn the language teenagers speak, and they ought to listen to teenage music.

— Joey Heatherton

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

— Petrarch

Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.

— Anonymous

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

— Charlton Laird

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are…

— John Pilger

Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are…

— Leonardo da Vinci

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language…

— Frances Mayes

When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory…

— Khalil Gibran

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

— Philip Sidney

I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When just one single word comes in action then it is called ‘Knowledge’ (Gnan) and even after reading all the scriptures but…

— Dada Bhagwan

You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our…

— Anonymous

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language…

— Frank Luntz

Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in…

— Gary Chapman

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas…

— Jonathan Nolan

“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

If we're in a scene together, I want to give you something that allows your performance to be truthful. In football, if…

— Nnamdi Asomugha

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or…

— Isabella Rossellini

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

— Pitbull

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

— Wole Soyinka

“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

If you have to respect in the world speak the same language,understand the world

— Mak_786

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

Words don't attract girls, it's the actions you prove them does.

— âebâl-s

The moment when you don't know the words to use for the way you feel.

— David Vigil

“A word is enough for the wise, but talkativeness is not enough for the foolish”

— Joy Clinton

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

— Etty Hillesum

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

— Stephan Pastis

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“I took the words from valleys and streams I took my inspirations from journeys and dreams”

— Kenny Lord

“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”

— Anonymous

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.

— Charles Ives

People say I use foul language. I learnt swear words only from my father and YGP.

— Radha Ravi