Language words quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • The language of friendship is not words but meanings. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. -- George Eliot
  • The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. -- Maxim Gorky
  • The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. -- Gore Vidal
  • The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'. -- David Tang
  • Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important. -- Chelsea Clinton
  • Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. -- Theodor Adorno
  • I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go. -- Olga Kurylenko
  • When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words. -- Antonio Banderas
  • Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. -- Alfred Day Hershey
  • Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. -- Thomas Shadwell
  • Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words! -- Stephen Sondheim
  • It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words. -- Eduardo Galeano
  • Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. -- Carol Shields
  • I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. -- Jane Goodall
  • So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words. -- Godfrey Reggio
  • Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally. -- Rabih Alameddine
  • Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. -- Roland Barthes
  • All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague. -- Rabih Alameddine
  • A language Older Than Words -- Derrick Jensen
  • Body language is more powerful than words. -- Ricky Gervais
  • All words, in every language, are metaphors. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • Photography is a language more universal than words. -- Minor White
  • If onlyâ?¦the saddest words in the English language. -- Kristan Higgins
  • If only. The saddest two words in any language. -- Maggie Osborne
  • If only. The saddest two words in any language." -- Maggie Osborne
  • Music is the language of the heart without words. -- Shinichi Suzuki
  • Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. -- Amos Oz
  • There must be a language that doesn't depend on words. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Language is a very difficult thing to put into words. -- Voltaire
  • I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language -- Annie Proulx
  • Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted -- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
  • Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy. -- Deepak Chopra
  • I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language. -- Beth Revis
  • I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects. -- Gustave Courbet
  • Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently. -- Pamela Cummins
  • The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words. -- Bill Irwin
  • If my words fail, let my eyes and my heart be my language. -- Mirtha Michelle
  • The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language. -- Judy Woodruff
  • So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple. -- Tycho Brahe
  • Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words. -- Friedrich Frobel
  • We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought. -- George Carlin
  • Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? -- Melina Marchetta
  • Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. -- Robin Sharma
  • Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language. -- Hemant Mehta
  • There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job, -- J. K. Simmons
  • We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords. -- John Wesley
  • You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well. -- Elie Wiesel
  • We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. -- Khalil Gibran
  • And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. -- John Hookham Frere
  • Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words to feel their pain. -- Julia Roberts
  • Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't. -- Andrew Lakey
  • You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
  • Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. -- Alfred Day Hershey
  • The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why. -- Wendy Alexander
  • Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. -- Raymond Williams
  • Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence. -- Tim Seibles
  • There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use. -- Eugene Schwartz
  • Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words. -- Robert Henri
  • I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more. -- Antony Sher
  • Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way. -- Fred Alan Wolf
  • The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language. -- Roger Scruton
  • Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. -- Samuel Johnson
  • --
  • Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard. -- William Congreve
  • The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin. -- Antonin Artaud
  • Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue. -- Virginia Woolf
  • Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange." -- J. M. Coetzee
  • Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. -- J. M. Coetzee
  • The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain, -- Lisa Gerrard
  • language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us. -- Erica Jong
  • For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. -- T. S. Eliot
  • Mind your language, count your words, mean what you say coz otherwise people no longer stay -- Ameya Agrawal
  • ...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife. -- Lanier Ivester
  • What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language. -- Ernest Klein
  • Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
  • In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs. -- E. J. Dionne
  • There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language. -- Patricia A. McKillip
  • Words!The Way is beyond language,for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today. -- Xinxin Ming
  • If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world. -- Paulo Coelho
  • The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.' -- Woody Allen
  • The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language. -- Andrew Solomon
  • Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,' -- John Oliver
  • Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you. -- J. C. Ryle
  • Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words. -- Billy Connolly
  • When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts. -- Mary Baker Eddy
  • Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular. -- Gautama Buddha
  • The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'. -- George Will
  • Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. -- Joshua Reynolds
  • As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... -- Gore Vidal
  • Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first. -- Timothy Keller
  • The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • --
  • Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Music does not need the language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
  • Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. -- John Langdon
  • Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. -- Leonard Mlodinow
  • Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it. -- Francis Quarles
  • Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words. -- Mandy Patinkin
  • I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service. -- Erma Bombeck
  • Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. -- Henry James
  • Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. -- Michael Polanyi
  • Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words. -- Nouman Ali Khan
  • Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality. -- Vera John-Steiner
  • The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." -- Ronald Reagan
  • Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head. -- Zoe Wanamaker
  • Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
  • If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do. -- Gertrude Stein
  • I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work. -- Conor McPherson
  • The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. -- Garth Stein
  • We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves. -- Piet Mondrian
  • The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. -- Wilson Follett
  • The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. -- Jonathan Swift
  • Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing. -- Marjane Satrapi
  • One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words. -- Rirkrit Tiravanija
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share