Language Quotes · Page 304

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

— Dan Fogelberg

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

— Joyce Meyer

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

— Billy Sunday

“Words whipped around me, faster than I could catch 'em.”

— L.M. Bryski

“Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.”

— Nema Al-Araby

“We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.”

— Stefan Molyneux

“Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!”

— Tina Sequeira

We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we…

— Howard Mansfield

“I wish I could find words--serious, beautiful words--to describe it in the afternoon sunlight; the more I strive for them, the more…

— Dodie Smith

“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down…

— Eugene H. Peterson

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger…

— Don DeLillo

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

— Jessie Buckley

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

— Tacitus

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

— Jim Morrison

We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a…

— Michael Bierut

I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area…

— George Carlin

I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features…

— Noam Chomsky

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most…

— Clara Shih

For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with…

— Masha Tupitsyn

“Speaking does harm, sows confusion and weakens things that are obvious. Speaking makes me tremble inside. I don't think I have ever…

— Olga Tokarczuk

Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes…

— Pope Benedict XVI

My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.…

— Khalil Gibran

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

— Katya Zamolodchikova

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me, but words would never be enough.”

— Genna Rulon

“What good to your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]”

— Joel McIver

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

— Oscar Wilde

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

— Mike Mansfield

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

— Saul Williams

Three words, eight Letters, all for one person, I Love You!

— Rashida Rowe

English accepts more curses than any other language, and I soon learned to curse with the commoners.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.

— Charles Capps

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

— William Shakespeare

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

— Blaise Pascal

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

— Ani DiFranco

I am so clever that sometimes I dont understand a single word of what I am saying

— Anonymous

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity,

— Mario Testino

“I could see him weighing each word on his tongue before allowing it life.”

— Krysta MacDonald