Language Quotes · Page 291

My father spoke several languages and he had hundreds of books.

— Michele Lamy

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.

— Paulo Coelho

“Nouns and verbs hold the power but syntax casts the spell.”

— Janet Peery

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

— Amitava Kumar

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things

— Confucius

If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway.

— Richard Berry

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated…

— Robin Sloan

Words are wonderful gifts given to our voice, they may often become noise; but silence is always golden, it gives us power…

— Chinmoy Sarkar

While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm…

— Psy

Your words are very powerful, because they have the power to either inspire growth or to cause destruction.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently…

— Sarah Fielding

I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's…

— Elie Wiesel

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to…

— Marshall McLuhan

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest…

— Charlotte Bronte

“He had never clearly fathomed the true weight of a word of good, truth, and purity cast in the stream of human…

— Ivan Goncharov

Goethe said, "The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing"; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he…

— Randall Jarrell

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where…

— J. K. Rowling

NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that…

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido…

— Robert Jay Lifton

Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what…

— George Orwell

“I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing.”

— Tahereh Mafi

Words have power, and especially in the realm of beauty, how we speak about ourselves is important.

— Crystal Hana Kim

These words are all I have so I write them I need them just to get by.

— Fall Out Boy

Art is the mold of feeling as language is the mold of thought.

— Anonymous

How can I BELIEVE if in the middle of BELIEVE was the word LIE.

— Anonymous

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

— Matthew McConaughey

I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex.

— Stephen Colbert

Be sure you taste your words before you spit them out

— Savannah J

“Over the water of time I call to you In a language I do not know.”

— Ellen S Jaffe

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

— George Bernard Shaw

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Words have always had the power to change the world.”

— Terry Pratchett

PRAY; the word we use, when hope isn't enough. The word we use when faith is all that is left.

— Gilbere Forte

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

— David Hume

“People don't follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.”

— Jennifer Ott