Langauge Quotes & Sayings

I suppose the problem ... is that we have an inside and an outside. We've got problems both places, but it's so hard to tell where the one stops and the other takes up. — Samuel R. Delany

I missed that one,' Henryson said. 'The war, I mean.'
'Don't worry,' Snipes said. 'Another one's always coming down the pike. That's something all your historians and philosophers agree on. A feller over in Germany looks to be ready to set a match to Europe soon enough, and quick as they snuff him out there'll be another to take his place. — Ron Rash

I stared at them while my control unraveled. I wanted to throw them in the trash. I wanted to return them. I wanted to keep them. I was a mess of wants, none of which mattered, because she didn't want me. — Cora Carmack

I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Simplicity is the language of leadership. — Farshad Asl

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. — Mao Zedong

Uncool is a cool resting place. The pressure's off me. — Greg Behrendt

Silence is not a langauge, its a weapon to make your dear one to feel — William Shakespeare

I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story. — Valerie June

Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much. — Sonja Sohn

Of course she's read it. Half of England has read it, which is why it's vulgar to quote it.' 'Half the world has read the Bible and we quote it. — Jennifer Bradbury

Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other words in perfect syntax. There is no place for verbosity or carelessness. To become fluent in a computer lnaguage demands almost the antithesis of modern loose thinking. It requires many interactive sessions, the hands-on use of the device. You do not learn a foreign language from a book, rather you have to live in the country for year to let the langauge become an automatic part of you, and the same is true for computer languages. — James Lovelock

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do. — Wynton Marsalis

Big as a horse turd floating in a milk shake.
Wyatt Dixson — James Lee Burke