Language Quotes · Page 324

“I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.”

— Kimberly Derting

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

— Sydney Madwed

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

— Edward Hopper

“Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.”

— CLAMP

In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

— Anonymous

Grant that I may experience the power of Thy Word before I deliver it.

— Christmas Evans

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

— Carol Burnett

The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.

— Beano Cook

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

— Kevin Drum

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to…

— Karl Kraus

A few good words don't just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the…

— Ravi Shastri

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But…

— George Zimmerman

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most…

— Mike Fitzpatrick

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth?…

— Charlie Chaplin

“Their conversation is like a gently wicked dance: sound meets sound, curtsies, shimmies, and retires. Another sound enters but is upstaged by…

— Toni Morrison

We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves.…

— Moliere

I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old…

— Laini Taylor

“Wisconsin,'" Twiss said. "That's my word." "The word or the state?" Milly said. "Both," Twiss said. Twiss knew every dip and rise…

— Rebecca Rasmussen

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We're dreamers and - since we only…

— John Edgar Wideman

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new…

— Maya Angelou

Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning…

— Israel Shenker

Only cheap people use cheap and filthy words, because they just can't afford good words :)

— Anas

I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.

— Rolf Harris

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

— Amy Koppelman

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

— Rumi

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.

— C. S. Lewis

“Minutes became words. With the time sentences = Hours And Texts = Days”

— Deyth Banger

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

— Barry Webster

“Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We have no language that is free of the power dualisms of domination.”

— Beverly Harrison

“Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music.”

— T.L. Rese

I've had my fair share of words being twisted and articles being sliced and diced.

— Shooter Jennings

Sweetheart, that word has 2 r's in it. It, COSMERTOLERGY!!!

— Madea

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see

— Mark Twain

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

— Warwick Thornton

Friendship language is, 'You look nice tonight.' Desire language is, 'You look hot tonight.'

— Matthew Hussey

“Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson