Language Quote by Elias Canetti Download Open image “Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.” — Elias Canetti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language People Use
'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway. — George Clinton Copy Share Image
And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Some say AGE is just a NUMBER; but I say AGE is totally a Word that can be shown in NUMBERs. — Swag Jagar Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
“The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]” — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The planets survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image