Language Quotes · Page 299

No words can explain how I feel about you, but sometimes I wonder how you feel about me.

— Konghlapru

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

“a heap of words designed to hinder communication rather than facilitate it.”

— Hugh Howey

If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree...

— Rex Harrison

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

— Mahmoud Darwish

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

— Baltasar Gracian

I've learnt the power of words. I've had the worst thrown at me.

— Motsi Mabuse

“My grandmother told me, "Words are holy. Treat them with respect. There's power there.”

— Alma Hogan Snell

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or…

— Scott Fujita

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

— George Mikes

Bitcoin is great as a form of digital money, but its scripting language is too weak for any kind of serious advanced…

— Vitalik Buterin

I just want to say that 'Minari' is about a family. It's a family trying to learn how to speak a language…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

— Mark Takano

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages…

— Charles Taylor

We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's…

— Wynton Marsalis

“The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if…

— Moshe Seidel

We [me and my husban] like to honor both of our family traditions whenever possible . We show the girls lots of…

— Adriana Lima

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates…

— Yehuda Berg

“Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train…

— Steven Pinker

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a…

— Roger Fry

I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden…

— Larry Gelbart

Bryzgalov isn’t just a running comedy act. He’s one of the league’s most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the…

— Ilya Bryzgalov

Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the…

— Grant Imahara

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else,…

— Adrienne Rich

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

— Tom Kenyon

No matter what language is being spoken, a smile will never need a translator.

— Anonymous

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

— Ingrid Bengis

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high

— Japanese Proverb

“One thing is beautiful beyond my words to say it: August holding you.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

— Helene Cixous

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

— Rita Mae Brown

The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.

— Al Ries

Kindness is a Language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

— Mark Twain

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

— Joyce Carol Oates

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

— Mark Twain

Words can be very powerful. Why not use them to lift someone up today rather than knock them down.

— Anonymous

Words arent enough to tell you how wonderful you are. I love you.

— Azgraybebly Josland

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

— Mark Slouka

“Words could mean nothing or they could change someone for eternity.”

— Aegelis