Language Quotes · Page 328

I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.

— Patrick J. Adams

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.”

— Roland Barthes

“Your conduct speaks so loudly I can’t hear a word you are saying.”)”

— Vincent Bugliosi

“The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language.”

— Star Trek The Next Generation

“Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.”

— Sara Nelson

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

By studying psychology i want to be a better actor. There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know…

— Shia LaBeouf

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked…

— George Orwell

By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet…

— Joseph Brodsky

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance,…

— Marina Abramovic

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say…

— Anthony Geary

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

— David Crystal

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

— Joss Whedon

What is or is not the jargon is determined by whether the word is written in an intonation which places it transcendently…

— Theodor Adorno

I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I…

— Troye Sivan

“The 20th century linguistic revolution is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but…

— Oliver Benjamin

Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a…

— Susanna Kaysen

Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid…

— John C. McGinley

I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English…

— Asa Hutchinson

“His language blends well with conflicting arrogance. David Herbert Lawrence was one writer who convinced me of the need for being plisky…

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is…

— Hermann Hesse

“That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.”

— Kevin Hearne

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

— H. G. Wells

Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

— Karl Kraus

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

— Beth Orton

“I am fortunate to have witnessed the alchemy of words transform destiny into reality.”

— Brenda Sloan

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

— Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

I'm laying down my new audio book. No writing, just spoken words, the old fashioned way. -Kenny Powers

— Eastbound And Down

I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.

— Lauren Ambrose

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

The four sweetest words in the English language — 'You wore me down.'

— Aziz Ansari

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

— Anonymous

All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.

— Mae West

Lips. There was something strangely, delicately indelicate about the word, like a kiss itself.

— Cassandra Clare

Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.

— Neal Cassady