Language Quotes · Page 315

Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said 'Loud, Louder, and Loudest'!

— Anastacia

But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.

— Eddie Izzard

“(was it because the whole world went online – is that why we never wrote another word?).”

— Yvette Walker

“Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.”

— Nyrae Dawn

There are some people in this world who always turn and twist the spoken word out of proportion.

— Raveena Tandon

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

— Audre Lorde

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

— Khalil Gibran

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

— Daniel Levitin

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

— Mat Kearney

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language.…

— Akshay Kumar

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's…

— George Carlin

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes…

— Jonathan Maberry

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Anytime you're learning a new defense, there's going to be so much of a - everybody uses different words as far as…

— Leighton Vander Esch

“Listen. Hear the language that isn't spoken, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that…

— Mary E. Pearson

“Words can calm people, can make them them fall in love, can whip them up into a frenzy, can turn them into…

— Roger Highfield

“Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in…

— Jakub Marian

“Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars.…

— Howard Mittelmark

I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk…

— Maxine Waters

In my school, the library was forbidden. I was accused of turning on the radiator so that the [class]room was uninhabitable and…

— Keith Johnstone

“The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like…

— Virginia Woolf

I met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's…

— Prince Royce

We're caught in the pace of modern living - this emphasis on the "quick take," on the magazine that says it will…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

Words will be words, till you bring them to life. -1D

— One Direction

“When words can't make it better, hold my hand and don't let go.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

— Martin Amis

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

— William Fitzsimmons

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

— William Strunk, Jr

Your words come from the heart, but are spoken from the soul.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— J. L. Austin

Music is indeed the universal language and unites people.

— Daryl Davis

The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

— Stanley Baldwin

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

— Joseph Brodsky