Powerful Language Quotes

#1. Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Desmond Tutu

#2. In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.

Kim Edwards

#3. A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

Ada Lovelace

#4. The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

Virginia Lee

#5. Words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#6. It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!

Terry Pratchett

#7. The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.

Brenda Hillman

#8. Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

Jacob Grimm

#9. Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art ... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see.

Betsy Hearne

#10. Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Louise Erdrich

#11. That was great, al' that reading' ye did!' said Rob Anybody. 'I didnae understand a single word o' it!' 'Aye, it must be powerful language if you cannae make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!' said another pictsie.

Terry Pratchett

#12. The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

Richard Stallman

#13. Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

Thomas Keating

#14. The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here was the modern human mind at work, spinning symbolism and abstraction in a way that only Homo sapiens is capable of doing.

Richard Leakey

#15. I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.

Kate Christensen

#16. Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

Eyvind Kang

#17. 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.

Dean Koontz

#18. Assembly, while extremely powerful, is simply too difficult to program large applications and hard to read or interpret in a logical way. C is a compiled language, which creates fast and efficient executable files. It is also a small "what you see is all you get" language:

Wiki Books

#19. The concert had energized me in a peculiar and powerful way. It had jimmied the lock on my language box and smashed the last of my literary inhibitions.

Tom Robbins

#20. The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were days when that skill was nothing compared to what he told me in his looks.

Richelle Mead

#21. The feeling that passed between them, so powerful there was no language to describe it... It was not mere friendship, but something born of and strengthened by it.

Sarah J. Maas

#22. A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

Hal Abelson

#23. We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Eric Hoffer

#24. Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carol P. Christ

#25. I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

Josh Gad

#26. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message - spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions - telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.

Naomi Klein

#27. Of all the weapons the Europeans brought to the Pacific, guns included, none was more powerful and more capable of effecting lasting change than written language.

Laurence Bergreen

#28. It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

Cheech Marin

#29. In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the
culture.

Adrienne Rich

#30. Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

Andrew Dalby

#31. ... Language shows a tendency for the words "good" and "stupid" to come [close] together... a hint of contempt... within these term[s]... [dictating that] the good man must always be unthreatening.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

Harvey MacKay

#33. Liberal democracy is a powerful unifying mechanism, blurring differences between people and imposing uniformity of views, behavior, and language.

Ryszard Legutko

#34. One. Word.
NO.
No is a powerful word. To me, it's the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.

Shonda Rhimes

#35. Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future.

Malcolm X

#36. Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip.

John Patrick Hickey

#37. Body language is more powerful than words.

Ricky Gervais

#38. We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.

Thomas R. Insel

#39. Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

Bill Walton

#40. Words are some of the most powerful and important things I know ... Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger
and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

Ani DiFranco

#41. Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore art thou ass and thy elbow" just isn't.

J.R. Ward

#42. Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Deborah Bull

#43. Superstition in wartime takes a more powerful hold on the mind. One sees omens in everything. One is returned to a more primitive view of the world and its sign language.

Glenn Haybittle

#44. Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

#45. To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

Jack Lynch

#46. Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative.

Barry Lopez

#47. What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

Mary C. Ames

#48. The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#49. Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

Will.i.am

#50. To make a programming language powerful, you need to make it expressive. Having

Conrad Barski

#51. From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers.

David Perlmutter

#52. Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#53. Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Rita Dove

#54. I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

Drew Barrymore

#55. The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language ... those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

Donald Miller

#56. O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#57. The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.

Wendy Alexander

#58. The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the
language of word.

Kedar Joshi

#59. The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

Bill Irwin

#60. Kissed. Cath loved that word. She used it sparingly in her fic, just because it felt so powerful. It felt like kissing to say it. Well done, English Language.

Rainbow Rowell

#61. Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past.

Miya Yamanouchi

#62. There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship.

Erwin McManus

#63. Baseball. If there's a more beautiful word in the English language. I have yet to hear it ... baseball has served as such a powerful link between Dad and me, and later between me and my son.

Tim Russert

#64. The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#65. Hungarian Language - savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura ... words of nectar and cyanide.

Emile M. Cioran

#66. Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

Melina Marchetta

#67. In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it is delivered in the manner that power recognizes as powerful.

James S.A. Corey

#68. In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

Ivan Turgenev

#69. There are tines in the prophetic ministry when words we receive for others must stay in the throne room...they are more powerful when converted into crafted prayer and spoken to the father than when put into prophetic language and ministered to human beings.

Graham Cooke

#70. The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

Steve McCurry

#71. Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

Mark Pagel

#72. Physical presence in the time of crisis is the most powerful gift you can give if your spouse's primary love language is receiving gifts. Your body becomes the symbol of your love.

Gary Chapman

#73. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.

Jeanette Winterson

#74. The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics ... is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#75. The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.

Arthur Compton

#76. Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#77. I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

A.S. Byatt

#78. In Nonviolent Communication you will find an amazingly effective language for saying what's on your mind and in your heart. Like so many essential and elegant systems, it's simple on the surface, challenging to use in the heat of the moment and powerful in its results.

Vicki Robin

#79. I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.

Jerry Spinelli

#80. The powerful intellect leashed by an impoverished vocabulary is a myth. Without a vocabulary, a language, the intellect cannot develop.

T. Geronimo Johnson