Language Quotes · Page 300

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

— Terence McKenna

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

— Greta Gerwig

I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.

— Demetri Martin

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

— Richard P. Feynman

“Ukiipenda sana nchi yako ni rahisi sana kuichukia serikali yake!”

— Enock Maregesi

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

— Sarah Bernhardt

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

— Talcott Parsons

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

— Arthur Helps

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things,

— Anne Bradstreet

The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been…

— Johannes Kepler

Scientists speak a certain language. Now there are regular extreme weather reports on the news. Hurricane Katrina was a huge connect-the-dot moment…

— Laurie David

The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.

— Melvyn Bragg

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated…

— Richard Foreman

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only…

— Mark Twain

“During a conversation, it is better to have an understanding without words, than words without understanding.”

— Amit Kalantri

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these…

— Marshall McLuhan

When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them…

— Gregg Braden

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a…

— Richard Paul Evans

“And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind’s ear, “…quite enough for everybody at present,” she…

— Virginia Woolf

“I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for…

— Mary Shelley

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports…

— Douglas Adams

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant…

— Claudia Rankine

We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

— Beth Kephart

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

— William Carleton

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words…

— Marilynne Robinson

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

— Ezra Pound

“There was a lot under those words. I'd go digging for it later.”

— Sarah Zettel

“Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can.”

— Anton Chekhov

I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

— Jack Ma

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.

— Taylor Hackford

I watched 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' about 90 times and knew every word.

— Helen Baxendale

“Because sometimes words were so pitifully inadequate, and I knew that, but I had to try anyway.”

— Jenny Han

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

— David Parnas

“Anger is the fire of the soul, love is the language of the heart ...”

— Stephen Richards

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

— Mary Oliver

Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.

— Francis of Assisi

“In every language in the universe, the strongest word is truth!”

— Susan Waterwyk

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

— Joseph Parker