I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
There is a narrow class of uses of language where you intend to communicate. Communication refers to an effort to get people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“This is why we said 'ain't' and 'he don't'. We wanted words to fit our cold linoleum, our oil lamps, our outhouse.… — Vern Rustsala Copy Share Image
If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own… — Ted E. Brewerton Copy Share Image
When it comes to personal communication, words are all we've got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything. — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.” — Steve Chandler Copy Share Image
“...every language without exception has some, but not all, of the characteristic features of lies--if no other, then at least the feature… — Harry G. Franfurt Copy Share Image
“20. Fucking leaves everything as it is. Fucking may in no way interfere with the actual use of language. For it cannot… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra'… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama.… — John Milius Copy Share Image
