Language Quotes

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Grammar is the analysis of language. — Edgar Allan Poe
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt. — Lawrence Clark Powell
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. — Adrienne Rich
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts. — Sol Stein
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build… — Sol Stein
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. — Lytton Strachey
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human… — Washington Irving
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth… — Stephen King
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. — Amy Tan
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. — John Dewey
Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking. — Hyman Bass
What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... To grow mathematically children must be exposed to a rich variety of patterns… — Lynn Steen
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the… — Hermann Weyl
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture. — Charlie Waite
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. — Bruno Barbey
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game… — Judit Polgar

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