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You have definitely heard of the term creating first impression, haven’t you? This is what one shot at good verbal communication is about. It can make or break your relationship with any person. Bad verbal communication comes from improper use of grammar and pronunciation. To avoid this, learn and practice well. It is said that - words once spoken cannot be taken back. So it is time to sharpen those skills and read some of these famous verbal communication sayings and quotations in the next piece of the article.

Don DeLillo

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Vision
Don DeLillo
Amy Winehouse

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Jazz
Amy Winehouse
Al Pacino

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Al Pacino
Deion Sanders

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

Dogs
Deion Sanders
William Gibson

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Light Mind
William Gibson
Anushka Sharma

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

People Nation
Anushka Sharma
Denis Villeneuve

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

Communication
Denis Villeneuve
Ronald Reagan

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Words Government Help
Ronald Reagan
Kobe Bryant

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

People
Kobe Bryant
Robert Kennedy, Jr.

There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, but to ASD, to SIDS, to ADD, ADHD, language tics - which is like Tourette Syndrome - OCD, asthma, food allergies, and diabetes.

Science Food
Robert Kennedy, Jr.

I would have to say 'The Crucible' stands out because it was one of the best experiences I've ever had, but, you know, Arthur Miller being present on the set - which was wonderful and incredible - but, to have him in your eye line is quite intimidating. It's such a beautiful language he created, so that was challenging but exciting.

Best
Winona Ryder
RM

Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

Music
RM
Rita Mae Brown

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Power Communication Moon
Rita Mae Brown
Carrie Fisher

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Words World
Carrie Fisher

The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they don't speak the language and they can't deliver the lines or even speak to the director. But in terms of Asian-American actresses, we all speak it fluently!

Karen Fukuhara
Jackie Chan

Coffee is a language in itself.

Coffee
Jackie Chan

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Words
Noam Chomsky
George Carlin

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Communication Truth Facts Words
George Carlin
William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.

Communication Space
William S. Burroughs
Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought.

Thought Dress
Samuel Johnson
Jean Baudrillard

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Love
Jean Baudrillard
Franklin P. Jones

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Observation Viewpoint Thinking Example
Franklin P. Jones
Robert Downey Jr.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

Robert Downey Jr.
Milana Vayntrub

I remember what it was like when my parents couldn't help me with my homework because they couldn't speak the language, or being a translator for my parents. I did that a lot.

Milana Vayntrub
William Arthur Ward

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Smile Kindness
William Arthur Ward
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Soul
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Toni Morrison

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Life
Toni Morrison
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Mankind Music
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rupert Murdoch

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Travelling
Rupert Murdoch
Walt Disney

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Communication
Walt Disney
Eric Hoffer

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Eric Hoffer
Sean Lennon

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

World
Sean Lennon
Noam Chomsky

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

World Animals
Noam Chomsky
Jorge Luis Borges

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Country
Jorge Luis Borges
Carl Sandburg

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Work
Carl Sandburg
Christopher Morley

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Life
Christopher Morley
Virginia Woolf

Language is wine upon the lips.

Virginia Woolf
William Osler

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Art
William Osler
Narendra Modi

I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

Narendra Modi

We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommodate them in different ways. My father speaks different to my mum. My mum speaks different to my grandmother. Everybody speaks different, so you find you start tweaking your language to be more accessible to people.

Family People
Trevor Noah
Dave Chappelle

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

Dave Chappelle
Christina Ricci

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

Body Surroundings
Christina Ricci
Mark Twain

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Kindness
Mark Twain
W. H. Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Love Poetry
W. H. Auden
George Carlin

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

Observation Comparisons Questions Thinking
George Carlin
Abbie Hoffman

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

People
Abbie Hoffman
Jean Baudrillard

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Jean Baudrillard

Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.

Theatre
Kajal Aggarwal
Alicia Vikander

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

Words
Alicia Vikander
Harriet Tubman

Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

Harriet Tubman
George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

America
George Bernard Shaw
Hillaire Belloc

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Life History
Hillaire Belloc
Ilhan Omar

When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were 'Hello' and 'Shut up.'

Country Words
Ilhan Omar
Don DeLillo

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

Books
Don DeLillo
Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Nature Reality Feelings
Vincent Van Gogh
Ralph Fiennes

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

Things
Ralph Fiennes

One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of emphasis on language - it's a different medium. But that is one of the most wonderful things about film. A person's face can say so much more than their voice can.

Face
Linda Cardellini
T. S. Eliot

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Communication
T. S. Eliot
Drew Barrymore

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.

Words
Drew Barrymore

Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.

Family Greatness
Chris Pine
Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friendship Words
Henry David Thoreau
Hippocrates

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Nothing Virtues Words
Hippocrates
James Baldwin

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Universe Truth
James Baldwin
Don DeLillo

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Truth Truthfulness
Don DeLillo
Stephen King

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Romance
Stephen King

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.

School
J. R. R. Tolkien
John David Washington

Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that.

Hatred
John David Washington

After having a career in Spain for eight years, I went back to being anonymous again, having to prove myself to the industry and myself, to prove I was capable of acting in a different language. It was a good challenge, and I can't complain.

Good
Ana de Armas

David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.

Opinion
John Krasinski
Alicia Vikander

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

Alicia Vikander
Phil Collins

It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.

Phil Collins
J. R. R. Tolkien

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Robert Redford

I didn't know the technical language of filmmaking, so I said, 'OK, I'm going to do my own storyboard,' because I had to explain to the crew and the technical people what I wanted.

People
Robert Redford

Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Fall Ideas
J. R. R. Tolkien

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

Paul Ryan
Charles Baudelaire

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Practice
Charles Baudelaire
Ilaiyaraaja

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

Art World
Ilaiyaraaja
Elie Wiesel

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Violence Feelings
Elie Wiesel
Don DeLillo

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Beauty Influence
Don DeLillo
Phil Collins

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

Good Work
Phil Collins

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

Culture Fighting Media Fighting
Camille Paglia
Phil Collins

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

Country
Phil Collins
Priyanka Chopra

I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.

Girl
Priyanka Chopra
Conan O'Brien

Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

Country
Conan O'Brien
Denis Villeneuve

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

Love Words
Denis Villeneuve
Walt Disney

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Walt Disney

When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or the actors. When I work in English or French, the music of the language is different, but beyond that music, in the depths, it's the same.

Music Work
Denis Villeneuve
Elie Wiesel

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.

Silence Violence
Elie Wiesel
John David Washington

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

Love
John David Washington
A. R. Rahman

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

People
A. R. Rahman

There's this little recipe that you have to hit pretty well to get somebody to laugh. And it's a combination of the way in which you say something, with the facial expression that you have, married with the body language that you have, etc.

Body
Jason Bateman
Walt Whitman

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Time Growth
Walt Whitman
Rashida Jones

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

Rashida Jones
Anurag Kashyap

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

Cinema
Anurag Kashyap
Noam Chomsky

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Weapons
Noam Chomsky
Kenneth Branagh

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Kenneth Branagh

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

Humor
Jon Favreau
Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Tracee Ellis Ross

I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.

Tracee Ellis Ross
Quentin Tarantino

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

Quentin Tarantino