Language Quotes

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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out… — Harold Bloom
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. — Carol P. Christ
The function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again,… — Toni Morrison
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. — Wilfrid Laurier
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand. — Jenny Holzer
Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they… — George S. Patton
Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down.… — Unknown Author
In my mind, there's nothing wrong with it. I don't instinctively know what's wrong with it. There is a language of the ghetto. There is… — Rush Limbaugh
SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. — Philip Greenspun
Art is an international language, understood by all. — Igor Babailov
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new… — Jack Kroll
Language is the close-fitting dress of thought. — Richard Chenevix Trench
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. — Kathy Acker
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different… — Salman Rushdie
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. — Roger Bacon
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental… — Northrop Frye
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language. — Lionel Trilling
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. — David Antin
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels. — David Antin

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