Language Quotes · Page 312

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

Words are just sounds made; but actions are when things are done.

— Swag Jagar

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

— Vivienne Westwood

“I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.”

— Kiran Nagarkar

Use words to please, to instruct, to soothe. Then stop speaking.

— Kate Horsley

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

— Helena Christensen

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

— Max Frisch

I do not speak Malayalam and am putting strenuous effort in developing command over the language.

— Sherlyn Chopra

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the…

— Alessandro Baricco

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t…

— Cassandra Clare

Words are everything in this life - they can tear you down and abuse you, or they can make you feel so…

— Sara Evans

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form…

— Gerald Stern

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the…

— Robert Pinsky

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

— Fernando Flores

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world…

— Lawrence Wright

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in…

— Terence McKenna

“To say that one goes on holiday is to speak the language of the working class, for whom the time off appears…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Been around the world, don't speak the language But your booty don't need explaining All I really need to understand is When…

— Anonymous

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. (...) if you want a stronger version of "good", what sense is there in…

— George Orwell

Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will;…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise…

— Philip M. Parker

The words are the mirror of a poet. Through which you can see the reflection of himself.

— Gaurav Dagaonkar

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words have the power to destroy me”

— Ellie Messe

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Ezra Pound

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

— Konghlapru

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

— Rex Harrison

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

— Hugh Howey

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

— Mahmoud Darwish

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

— Alma Hogan Snell

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

— Tom Kenyon

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

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

— Japanese Proverb

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

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

— Rita Mae Brown