Language Quotes · Page 29

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

— Bernard Malamud

“I write more with the words I leave out.”

— Bryant McGill

When all is dead, the words will be read.

— Jeremy Limn

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I deplore people who can't keep their word.

— Paterson Joseph

Be true to your work, your word, and your friends

— Anonymous

Everyone smiles in the same language.

— George Carlin

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

— Victor Hugo

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.

— Brett Hull

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

— Raymond Williams

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

— Stephen D. Krashen

If you can't understand my silence…how can I expect you to understand my words?

— Neehan

Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic.

— Rachel Riley

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

— Bill Haley

“How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Once again, she speaks in another language when things get awkward.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by…

— Ugo Betti

Some People like to learn some language and mny thing in this world but they don't like to learn About God..

— Mariane Corbito

“Words were sometimes like ammo. They could strike you with fear worse than an arrow. And worse was sometimes knowing ahead a…

— Cyndi Goodgame

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

— George Bernard Shaw

“I've got words residing inside me freely meandering reshaping a wasteland into the prospect of treasured home again”

— Ali Nuri

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I actually took French in school, can speak a bit and I understand the accent and understand the foundation of the language…

— Jesse Marsch

We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and…

— John Lachs

“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings.…

— Will Ferguson

Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If…

— Polly Young-Eisendrath

There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy…

— Emma Donoghue

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response.…

— Brene Brown

I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and…

— J. M. Coetzee

I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger…

— Anne Waldman

“ Mÿnna tachton gernast spuho somen gelen Emÿna daÿda" [modern: Minä tahdon kernaasti puhua suomen kieltä, [mutta] en minä taida] ("I willingly…

— Christine Wulff

Close the language-door, and open the love-window

— Rumi

“Find and interpreting the important words.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

1 thing 2 do 3 words 4 u: I LUV U

— Lina Raibuse

Two words I can sum up life, its unfair

— Isaac Mphahlele

Words, like flowers, have their colors too.

— Ernest Rhys

“Another breath, left to translate”

— Susan Voth

Those words are nothing for a heart that's sincere.

— Nica Escover

I'm a liberal - and I'm not running from that word!

— Ed Schultz