Language Quotes · Page 326

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

— Frantz Fanon

Life is short there is no time to leave important words unsaid

— Anonymous

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“WORDS ARE TEETH. AND THEY EAT ME ALIVE. FEED ON MY CORPSE INSTEAD.”

— Gail Giles

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

— Evan Esar

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.

— Rosalia

I believe that you can change a life with just one word.

— Onew

“it will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.”

— Eugene O'Neill

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express…

— Paul Tillich

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices…

— Edward Sapir

I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a…

— Daniel Everett

“Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot…

— Jarod Kintz

“Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and…

— Keith Miller

It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

“Words affect the mind in a pronounced way. Whether they are spoken or written, they are powerful influences.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Computing lets people express their creativity and unlock solutions, and code is computing's universal language. All young people, including girls, deserve to…

— Gabe Newell

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was…

— Sarah Dessen

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by…

— Roy Blount, Jr

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But…

— John Green

“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word,…

— Erich Fromm

I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of…

— Philip Glass

For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language,…

— Pico Iyer

When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show…

— David Eagleman

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and…

— Albert Einstein

“[...] I believed words still had power when they are said by the right people.”

— Bob Goff

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

— Joshua Reynolds

Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.

— Theodor Adorno

“Words were not the enemy or the monster under my bed, but they held such power over me.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

— Frank Herbert

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

— Cecilia Bartoli

Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.

— Michael Hyatt

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

— Joel McIver

“Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.”

— Vernor Vinge

A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

— Joseph Brodsky

Words can only have an effect on you if you choose to listen to them.

— Bernajoy Vaal

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

— Rudyard Kipling

“Some have the will of a language but lack a mouth.”

— César Calvo

Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.

— James I of Scotland

The words we say affect more then just us, it can affect the rest of our being.

— Heritier Ndele

“english is a language which is made up of fun if we dint know english we will miss the fun”

— Rubab Abdullah