Language Quotes · Page 320

If I had to describe myself in one word its annoying...

— Jasmine

“A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous.

— ingrid Bergmen

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

— Anonymous

“Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

— Kate DiCamillo

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

— Pythagoras

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

— Stephen King

All German women are beautiful. It's not for nothing that we talk of the German "Fräuleinwunder." You don't get this word in…

— Heidi Klum

I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very…

— Marge Piercy

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

— Alasdair Gray

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

— Mary Baker Eddy

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

— Charlton Laird

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the…

— Jay Mohr

“(Precocious children rarely grow up good). My aunts and uncles thought me quite atrocious. For using words more adult than I should”

— W.H. Auden

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays…

— Václav Havel

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat.…

— David Levithan

“For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or-to put the thing less…

— E.M.Forster

“Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it…

— Hermann Hesse

“HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly. NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it…

— George Bernard Shaw

“A local phrase book, entitled Speak in Korean , has the following handy expressions. In the section 'On the Way to the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I love the Italian culture - it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I…

— Penelope Cruz

“I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol,…

— Percival Everett

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

— Voltaire

To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'

— Karl Barth

Nothing is Impossible, The word itself says im-possible

— Anonymous

“Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it.”

— Yi

“Oftentimes, I feel that man invented language solely to satisfy his deep need to complain.”

— Dale E. Basye

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

— Anonymous

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

— Ben Jonson

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

— Gustav Mahler

Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.

— Richard J. Foster

“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“The words we speak are seeds; they will produce harvests in our lives.”

— Francis Jonah

“May,” said Dany. That was such a slippery word, may. In any language.”

— George R.R. Martin

“O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away”

— John Clare

The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.

— Damian Loeb

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

— Henry David Thoreau

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

— Stephen D. Krashen