Language Quotes · Page 295

The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

— Jake Shimabukuro

“Fuck you, I said." Uh-oh. There's that angry word.”

— Wally Lamb

I really want to get the word out that I am still relevant and have something to say.

— Regina Belle

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

— Anonymous

When we say Tamil, we are not talking of a language but an entire civilisation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

American Sign Language is my native tongue. That's the first thing that I learned to communicate with.

— Paul Raci

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

— Frans de Waal

“All my life I did not want it to be only words. This is why I lived, because I kept not wanting…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I swear conversation is such hard work! To make myself understood, it’s like I have to speak in an unknown foreign language,…

— Naoki Higashida

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

— Vikas Swarup

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously…

— Caroline Kennedy

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Action gives a better and clearer picture of what we say. It adds more paint and beauty to the images of our…

— Terry Mark

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in…

— John Piper

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

— Thomas E. Mann

We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than…

— Louie Anderson

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad,…

— Tom Schulman

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and…

— Alonzo Church

Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other…

— Tom Robbins

Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from…

— David Berman

Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business…

— Gary Lineker

Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world…

— Maya Angelou

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode…

— Carol Gilligan

“We sit in silence, the air between bristling with words unsaid.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Whoever gives his true self away does do with words”

— Alice Hoffman

I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.

— Peter Gizzi

I Want You to know something, but I can't tell you. So I will let the first three words tell you.

— Cory Payne

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

— Voltaire

“It hurt, [...], in a way language could not touch.”

— John Green

Words HURT. Words can KILL. So THINK before you speak.

— Anonymous

SPEAK only when you feel your words are better than the SILENCE

— Anonymous

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

— Keith Senior

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

— J. L. Austin

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

— George Carlin

Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.

— Joseph R. Bartlett

I milk this shit like cattle, that's my word like Scrabble.

— Lil Wayne

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

— Iris Murdoch

“Word is a powerful weapon ..peacful or mass destrcutive.”

— Msalem

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language,

— Laurence Overmire