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Language Quotes by John Green
- Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's…
- So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a…
- You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
- The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no…
- Language buries, but does not resurrect.
- Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.
- Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all…
More Language Quotes
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman