Language Quotes · Page 89

I am not saying the word fluffy.

— Harrison Ford

“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Silence is the only language god speaks.

— Charles Simic

As was his language so was his life.

— Seneca the Younger

Leadership is another word for preparation.

— Vijay Prashad

“In a word, literature is my utopia.”

— Helen Keller

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

— Patti Smith

Home is the nicest word there is.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite.”

— C.J. Ducasse

There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth

— Laura Dave

Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

— Anonymous

“I'm sure I'll have more to say about the penis word.”

— John Irving

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

— Anthony Doerr

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Words are easy to say but hard to express in action..

— Anonymous

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

— Bill Cosby

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language…

— Frances Mayes

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

— Mary Baker Eddy

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

— Alasdair Gray

“(Precocious children rarely grow up good). My aunts and uncles thought me quite atrocious. For using words more adult than I should”

— W.H. Auden

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the…

— Jay Mohr

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

— Charlton Laird

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

— Martin Sheen

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

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not…

— Antonio Conte

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

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

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

— Oliver Benjamin

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

— Troye Sivan

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

— Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

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

— Asa Hutchinson

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may…

— George Mikes

Speech happens to not be his language.

— Madame de Stael

“Words mean what you want them to mean.”

— Ally Condie

Every man prays in his own language.

— Duke Ellington

“this is a feast of words.”

— Clarice Lispector

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

I only speak one language. Language of love

— M

I believe in using words, not fists.

— Susan Sarandon

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

— Frank A. Clark