Language Quotes

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Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming… — William Allen White
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. — William Zinsser
You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is… — William Zinsser
What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating… — Ludwig Feuerbach
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition… — Igor Stravinsky
I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at… — Fredrik Bajer
Accounting is the language of business. — Warren Buffett
In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary… — Ursula Hegi
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this:… — Jean Baudrillard
Faith in Jesus Christ and a testimony of Him and His universal Atonement is not just a doctrine with great theological value. Such faith is… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines… — Romano Guardini
Would you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That is an unequivocal sex invite. — Unknown Author
When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered,… — Audre Lorde
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of… — June Jordan
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was… — June Jordan
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and… — June Jordan
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner
What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, â€œIf I could move you as much as it… — Greil Marcus
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient… — Charles Stross
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined… — Dan Simmons

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