Language Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett Download Open image “We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Life Use Used
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have. — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before… — Paul Nouge Copy Share Image
We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best. — Ivy Compton-Burnett 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
