Language Quotes · Page 317

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

— Anonymous

I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything… I let the Word do its work!

— Martin Luther

“Silence is the best language to speak in when you have lots of things to say.”

— Suman Pokhrel

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought

— Anonymous

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

— Hisham Matar

“If one can picture the words, then the works of the writer is an accomplishment!”

— Shobana

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

— S. I. Hayakawa

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

— David Crystal

First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the…

— Tom Robbins

“Shockingly tactless,” Lady Warford said. “Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages”

— Loretta Chase

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

— Meridel Le Sueur

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if…

— Noam Chomsky

“It’s funny how some things are just words until one day, it happens to you, and it’s like an epiphany.”

— Cheryl McIntyre

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

— Herman Melville

I find Shakespeare surprisingly sexual. A lot of his language - a lot - has that kind of sexual innuendo that is…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting…

— Henry David Thoreau

I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times…

— Jackee Harry

I remember politicians in Northern Ireland were sometimes called 'verbal incendiarists,' as they didn't actually do anything but they said certain things.…

— Gavin Esler

Modern acting is method acting, most of it. And there are sort of different schools, so I guess I'm not really from…

— Annette Bening

You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also…

— Freeman Dyson

Sentir mon Cœur is a privilege only granted to the exceptional man - the one who has the ability to find words…

— Herbert Read

“He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that everyone on earth was…

— Paulo Coelho

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of…

— Thomas Merton

That awkward moment when you screw tehe word up so much even autocorrect can't figure it out .

— Anonymous

“There are no words for so much loss, not right after it happens.”

— Brian Francis Slattery

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

— Robert Barry

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

— Mark Slouka

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

— Terence McKenna

“Words could mean nothing or they could change someone for eternity.”

— Aegelis

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

— Richard P. Feynman

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

— Greta Gerwig

I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.

— Demetri Martin

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

— Arthur Helps

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

— Talcott Parsons

“Ukiipenda sana nchi yako ni rahisi sana kuichukia serikali yake!”

— Enock Maregesi

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

— William Carleton

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

— Beth Kephart