Best mouths & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

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“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.”

Men Children Hate Speak Language Teach Mouths Spells Despise Englishmen No Respect

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.”

Has Beens Language Mystery Divine Mouths Socialism Greek Mysticism Employed Mystic Esoteric Connexion

Author:William Ralph Inge

“People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.”

People Ifs Want Trying Looks May Reason Use Seems Speak Language Wonder Mouths Let Me Accomplish Defense Objectives Coincidence Revealing

Author:David Mamet

“Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.”

Source: Film as Art

“There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.”

Looks Kind Sometimes Language Mouths Errors Opening All Kinds Symbols Vibrate

Book:LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

Source: LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING

“Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.”

People Want Trying Language Mouths Boxes Fog Misty Describe Myself Categorization Keeping Your Mouth Shut

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!”

Source: Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures

“A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem. How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?”

“Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience.”

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Author:Michael Hyatt

“You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.”

Faces Language Voice Mouths Tongue Muscles Accents Dialect

Author:Lake Bell

“When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.”

People Trying Stills Different Play Language Process Mouths Evolve New Things Casting Different Peoples Rehearsal

Author:Lynn Nottage

“I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.”

Ifs Would Be Language Nice Mouths Seven Just One If I Could Being Nice

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.”

Trying Language Issues Mouths Faithful Phrases Flats Affected Coming Out Contrast Distrust Pious Liturgy

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth”

Years Language Watches Heard Needed Six Mouths Angel Resolution Swear Toes Sailor Six Year Olds Mutants Potty Swear Word Potty Mouth

Author:James Patterson

“Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He said, "I don't think it's end of world to be my girlfriend." I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.”

“What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips. "You can't stay here much longer," she said. My mouth dropped open. "You...you speak English?" She snorted. "Of course.”

Said Fall Courses House Speak Language Happened Benefits Mouths Lips Barriers Speak English Language Barriers

Book:Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

“Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.”

Ifs Matter Use Names Language Difficult Church Perfect Lord Our Lives Habit Members Mouths Perfection Vain Curse Reverence Locks Routes Avoiding Foul Swearing Cursing Foul Language

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.”

Body Speak Language Forever Tree Changed Mouths Rain Skins Sticks Shakes Rebirth Petals

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)”

Way Humans Mean Book Able Earth Language Sound Human Beings Communication Mouths Primaries Expressive Means Of Communication

Author:Jon Stewart

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