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Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic (Language Quotes)
Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language (Language Quotes)
If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language (Language Quotes)
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it’s about cooking. I’m one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language (Language Quotes)
If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win (Language Quotes)
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds (Language Quotes)
Many people are intimidated by doctors.... People also feel stupid when they don’t understand what a doctor’s talking about the first time around, so they don’t ask again. And let’s be honest here, people. English is not a doctor’s first language (Language Quotes)
The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time (Language Quotes)
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner (Language Quotes)
Don’t you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same (Language Quotes)
The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules (Language Quotes)
Language can’t be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us (Language Quotes)
If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do (Language Quotes)
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language (Language Quotes)
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation (Language Quotes)
The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language (Language Quotes)
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts (Language Quotes)
Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy (Language Quotes)
There was a patient look on the old man’s face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship (Language Quotes)
The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere (Language Quotes)
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general (Language Quotes)
Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don’t more of us realize the connection between language and power? (Language Quotes)
I learned a long time ago that you don’t have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won’t get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character (Language Quotes)
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field (Language Quotes)
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style (Language Quotes)
... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it (Language Quotes)
The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own (Language Quotes)
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority (Language Quotes)
To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss (Language Quotes)
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing (Language Quotes)