Language Quotes

Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.

Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes("News From The World")

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Words can't save you, but they can give you courage.

In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.

Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.

There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language.

Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together.

I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.

Books are silent, but have the ability to scream.

He had existed for a long time and was fluent in many languages - most of them…dead ones.

I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.

Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom

I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

Love is the language that transcends all others.

Hyacinth. Please forgive me.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.

Each moment, breath is nourishing millions and millions of cells in our body.Listen to its language, interpret its words and enter into the mystery of life.

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

The language of love is not words but feelings.

Music is the eternal language of love for every living species.

When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.

If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.

Identifying body language changes connected with the conversation in hand gives us insights into their thoughts and emotions.

We unfortunately identify people by their religion, but my question is that, how can you say that we got different religious when we all smile in a same language..!

For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?