Language Quotes · Page 308

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

— William S. Burroughs

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

— William H. Macy

Have you ever noticed that the word moving is the most complicated verb : moving on for example

— Zonnie Kay

Am trying to find the right words to break the silence.

— Anonymous

Sometimes words were less valuable than the air that carried them when it came to getting close.

— J.R. Ward

Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.

— Janet Todd

Whoever said words don't hurt has clearly never had to hear the words, it's over.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Please believe me cause my words are true, are true. Cause only what I love and I want is you.

— Adele

I have sung songs in many Indian language be it Kannad, Tamil, Telgu, Marathi, Bhojpuri or Hindi and worked with all the…

— Sonu Kakkar

My parents, in their 40s, moved to a different country, started a business, bought a house, didn't speak the language, raised two…

— Jamie Chung

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware,…

— M. F. Husain

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise…

— John Ruskin

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it…

— Ingmar Bergman

'Words Are Under Your Control Until You Speak Them..' But You Come Under Their Control Once You Have Spoken Them...

— Pacifiersucker

It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch…

— Lauren Oliver

I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of…

— Rex Stout

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…

— Roland Barthes

It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform…

— John Searle

Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants.…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are…

— Stephen R. Covey

I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the…

— Daniel Everett

Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that…

— Patricia Hill Collins

“...what is it to know a variety of languages, but merely to have a variety of sounds express the same idea? Original…

— Washington Irving

“If words frighten you, you should be asking the question: Why?”

— Steven Magee

“They didn't speak a word, but it was still their best conversation in a long time.”

— Katrina Kittle

“Spring break! Were there any two words ever put together that make a more beautiful sound?”

— Gary D. Schmidt

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

— John Seagall

Gujarati is a very sweet language and I have always used elements from Gujarati songs in my music.

— Bappi Lahiri

Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.

— Jet Li

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

— Regina Belle

“There is a thin line between poetry and word salad.”

— Richard Carl Evans

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— Wally Lamb

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

— Jake Shimabukuro

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

— Jaggi Vasudev

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.

— Anonymous

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

— Peter Gizzi

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Christina Baker Kline