Language Quotes · Page 331

“There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes.”

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

— Sivananda

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

— O. Henry

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

— T. S. Eliot

Languages evolve; ideas blend together. In computer technology, we all stand on others' shoulders.

— Paul Allen

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

— Tommy Chong

“your problem is that you wanna better word for world”

— Bob Dylan

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us…

— James Hillman

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words…

— Betsy Lerner

Something like a 'Maheshinte Prathikaram' will work anywhere in the world because it speaks of something that is beyond language.

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining…

— Theodore Dreiser

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

— Sri Chinmoy

“If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.”

— George MacDonald

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

— William Safire

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that…

— Cheris Kramarae

“Class was what formed you, but didn’t travel to other cultures – it became invisible abroad. In foreign places, you were singled…

— Amit Chaudhuri

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become…

— Kathy Acker

The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They…

— Anonymous

If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the…

— Prince Charles

I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from…

— Linda Colley

There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but…

— William T. Vollmann

Sarina has changed so many things about England and how we approach things, the direction we want to head in, the language…

— Alex Greenwood

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

— Evanna Lynch

“You cannot use a word properly if you don’t know precisely what it means.”

— Shion Miura

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

— Khalil Gibran

Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last.

— Dan Millman

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

— W. Eugene Smith

Im not a mom, but I think the word mother is about wisdom.

— Margaret Cho

You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.

— Lou Duva

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.

— Leigh Bardugo

“The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.”

— John Sinclair

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

— Anonymous

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

— Brian Harris

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

— Cate Blanchett

“as if the words came not from her but from the breeze.”

— Sally Gardner

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

— Noam Chomsky

“English was such a strange language - expressive in so may way, but so bland in others.”

— Farahad Zama

Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

— John Robbins