Language Quotes · Page 283

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

— O. Henry

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

— T. S. Eliot

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

— Evanna Lynch

“You cannot use a word properly if you don’t know precisely what it means.”

— Shion Miura

“your problem is that you wanna better word for world”

— Bob Dylan

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us…

— James Hillman

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

— Khalil Gibran

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

— W. Eugene Smith

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

— Siri Hustvedt

Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't…

— Preneet Kaur

“Ah, those eyes," he said. "They can speak volumes, but sometimes even I cannot translate the language. And we never did invent…

— Mary Balogh

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

— Cynthia Ozick

“[R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal…

— Kató Lomb

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

— Mark Twain

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so…

— David Crystal

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity…

— Ron Jeffries

Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid…

— John C. McGinley

I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I…

— Troye Sivan

“The 20th century linguistic revolution is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but…

— Oliver Benjamin

Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a…

— Susanna Kaysen

I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English…

— Asa Hutchinson

“His language blends well with conflicting arrogance. David Herbert Lawrence was one writer who convinced me of the need for being plisky…

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with…

— Eavan Boland

When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is…

— Hermann Hesse

Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.

— Dan Millman

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

— Anonymous

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

— Brian Harris

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

— Cate Blanchett

You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.

— Lou Duva

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.

— Leigh Bardugo

Im not a mom, but I think the word mother is about wisdom.

— Margaret Cho

“The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.”

— John Sinclair

I'm laying down my new audio book. No writing, just spoken words, the old fashioned way. -Kenny Powers

— Eastbound And Down

I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.

— Lauren Ambrose

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.

— Mae West

Lips. There was something strangely, delicately indelicate about the word, like a kiss itself.

— Cassandra Clare

Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.

— Neal Cassady

The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'

— Aziz Ansari

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

— Anonymous