Language Quotes · Page 301

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

— Theocritus

Words cannot tell you how much I love you. So forget it.

— Richie

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

— Leo Tolstoy

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

— Elliot W. Eisner

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

— Anonymous

2 words guys hate, Dont & Stop unless you put them together.

— Richie

“Sword and words—same letters, and same ability to cut down.”

— Jarod Kintz

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words…

— Aldous Huxley

Words...are cheap, and easy. It is the hard, our actions, that truly define us. What do yours say about you?

— Eric Nickel

Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky.

— Tanushree Dutta

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and…

— C. S. Lewis

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

— Etgar Keret

“Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill…

— Chuang Chou

“What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34."…

— Philip K. Dick

“To describe an emotion is to feel with words. To communicate a moment of existence is to bridge the eternal and the…

— Charles M. Heyworth

“In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a…

— Alain de Botton

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the…

— Lucretius

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but…

— A. S. Byatt

“I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French…

— Deborah Levy

Many people must have noticed the intense attention given by children to the conversation of grown-ups when they cannot possibly be understanding…

— Maria Montessori

If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language… This plan would…

— Robertson Davies

If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

— Derek Walcott

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?

— Ellen Hopkins

...Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]...

— Anonymous

“Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.”

— Mark Lawrence

Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense

— Dave Mustaine

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

— Elie Wiesel

“You are learned in the Word of God--And if you know His Word, you know His Will.”

— Will Eisner

As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

— Hillary Clinton

“There is beauty in each word of a Book; as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!”

— Mrudula G B

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

— Thom Gunn

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

— Richard Dawkins

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

— J. L. Austin

Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.

— Alexander Hamilton

“[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.”

— Joseph Brodsky