Language Quotes · Page 322

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

— Katya Zamolodchikova

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“Words whipped around me, faster than I could catch 'em.”

— L.M. Bryski

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

— Billy Sunday

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

— Joyce Meyer

“Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.”

— Nema Al-Araby

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

— Oscar Wilde

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

— Mike Mansfield

“We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone…

— Gregory David Roberts

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

— Martin Sheen

They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my…

— Peter Gabriel

Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.

— Beppe Grillo

Enshrined in a language is the whole of a community's history and a large part of its cultural identity. The world is…

— David Crystal

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

— Theodor Adorno

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and…

— Brené Brown

For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the…

— Christopher Smart

My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to…

— Brett Weston

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will…

— Dean Koontz

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations…

— Christopher Dawson

“With the insight that genuine literacy involves “reading the word and the world,” renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to…

— Paulo Freire

The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

“I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me, but words would never be enough.”

— Genna Rulon

“What good to your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]”

— Joel McIver

Three words, eight Letters, all for one person, I Love You!

— Rashida Rowe

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

— Saul Williams

Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.

— Charles Capps

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

— William Shakespeare

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

— Blaise Pascal

English accepts more curses than any other language, and I soon learned to curse with the commoners.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity,

— Mario Testino

“I could see him weighing each word on his tongue before allowing it life.”

— Krysta MacDonald

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

— Ani DiFranco

I am so clever that sometimes I dont understand a single word of what I am saying

— Anonymous

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

— Kenneth Branagh

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

— Mary C. Ames

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

— Fred Alan Wolf

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

— Kurt Gödel