Language Quotes · Page 286

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

— Virginia Woolf

“we can't escape the erotic vocabulary of our culture any more than we can escape language itself.”

— Siri Hustvedt

English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.

— Romeo Santos

“Maybe,” he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, “she took advantage of me.”

— Carrie Jones

“Words had become as foreign and hard to reach as the stars.”

— Sarah J. Maas

I LOVE YOU THOSE are my three favriote words in my vocabulary

— Anonymous

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

— Herbert Spencer

“Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.”

— Timothy Snyder

Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of…

— Yasmine Galenorn

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words…

— Betsy Lerner

“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining…

— Theodore Dreiser

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

— Sri Chinmoy

“If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.”

— George MacDonald

Something like a 'Maheshinte Prathikaram' will work anywhere in the world because it speaks of something that is beyond language.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that…

— Cheris Kramarae

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would…

— Ann Demeulemeester

I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become…

— Kathy Acker

The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They…

— Anonymous

If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the…

— Prince Charles

Sarina has changed so many things about England and how we approach things, the direction we want to head in, the language…

— Alex Greenwood

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from…

— Linda Colley

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but…

— William T. Vollmann

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon…

— Fay Weldon

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

— Jose Rizal

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The power of words written or spoken, have life. They can change the world

— Anonymous

“Kas nicina un plicina savu valodu, tas neciena arī sevi.”

— Vanda Tomaševiča

“Is language the adequate expression of all realities?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything that you say can influence a person; so choose your words carefully.

— Anonymous

“She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words”

— Markus Zusak

“Come, boy, it is time for a lesson. Let me teach you the power of words,”

— John Gwynne

I can communicate what I want to in Tamil, but I can't express myself in the language very well.

— Shraddha Srinath

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

— Peter Porter

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent

— Victor Hugo

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

— Sean Berdy

My silence is another word for my pain that I am hiding.

— Anonymous

“as if the words came not from her but from the breeze.”

— Sally Gardner

“English was such a strange language - expressive in so may way, but so bland in others.”

— Farahad Zama