Quotes About Language

A fine writer must appreciate and accept the power of language manifestly.

Language lacks the power to describe Faith.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut

Words matter, choose the words you use to describe yourself carefully, make sure they reflect your desire. By our words we ask from God and command the Universe. Both always deliver what we ask

Language has infinite power and as long as there's Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu or You and Me, as long as there's love in the world, language will find a way to cast its spell.

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.

Anger is the fire of the soul, love is the language of the heart ...

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered.

When we know beyond any doubt that we already speak the feeling language of prayer, we awaken that part of us that can never be stolen, lost, or taken away. This is the secret mode of prayer.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!