Word Language Quotes
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
— Ursula Dubosarsky
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
— John Hume
The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host.
— William S. Burroughs
Why, Noah, do you know the word for vagina in every language?""Because I'm European, and therefore more cultured than you. — Michelle Hodkin
I liked to watch anime in the original Japanese even though I couldn't speak a single word of the language.
— S.M. Reine
Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
— Ernest Cline
I cringed at the stupid 'b' word. Really, the English language is kind of limited in that department.
— C.M. Stunich
In the Old Peculiar language, the word ymbryne (pronounced imm-brinn) means "revolution" or "circuit.
— Ransom Riggs
I pointed at Ascanio. Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn't mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor.
— Ilona Andrews
I really want to adopt a child ... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.
— Patti Stanger
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
— Rebecca Solnit
Regret; The saddest word in the English language.
— Tonya Hurley
Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.
— Terry Tempest Williams
(optimisme itself was a word that first entered the French language in the eighteenth century).
— Kenan Malik
To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
— Emile M. Cioran
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
— Timothy Noah
We have no word for "Nation" in our language.
— Shashi Tharoor
The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
— Charles Spurgeon
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art' ... For Indians, everything is art ... therefore needs no name.
— Jamake Highwater
Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
— Caitlin Thomas
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
— Portia De Rossi
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
— Thomas Carlyle
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
— Jodi Picoult
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
— Richard M. Nixon
God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.
— Richard Brookhiser
Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word
— Frank Bough
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In every language in the universe, the strongest word is truth!
— Susan Waterwyk
Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.
— Harold Holzer
The arbiter of a demanding wargame rendered the word "mismatch" as "challenge" in his language.
— Star Trek The Next Generation
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
— Jorge Luis Borges
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
— Ellen Goodman
God uses language to create and command us.
— Eugene H. Peterson
Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.
— Charles Dickens
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
— Lev S. Vygotsky
Love is the only language that everyone understands without any word or interpretation.
— Debasish Mridha
The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean. — Blaise Cendrars
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
— Larry Wall
If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.
— Suzanne Vega
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[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.
— Will Durant
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
— Kevin Kline
We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.
— Sarah Rees Brennan
I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.
— David Malouf
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
— Elias Canetti
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
— Mary Balogh
Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.
— Shannon Hale
But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it.
— Wislawa Szymborska
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
— Frank Herbert
I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
— Daniel Dennett
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.
— Charles Baudelaire
Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee
— Harold Holzer
To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Toxemia. A word that starts so harsh and ends so gently.
— Emma Hooper
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
— Jeff Lindsay
It is impossible to disassociate language from science ... To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
— Antoine Lavoisier
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
— Franz Kafka
In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream."
— Michael Glawogger
If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.
— Doug Stanhope
Hay una estrella mas abiertaque la palabra 'amapola'?
Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy? — Pablo Neruda
