Use Language Quotes
28 quotes by 24 authors
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I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.
— Jarvis Cocker
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It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even…
— Henri Poincare
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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…
— John Green
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The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not…
— Peter Singer
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I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be.…
— Jeff Stilson
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I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls; I've slept with…
— Amanda Palmer
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The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience,…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other…
— Ntozake Shange
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Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a…
— John Milius
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How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around…
— Thomas S. Monson
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
— Dana Spiotta
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This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use…
— Rumi
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From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information,…
— Isabel Allende
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Language uses us as much as we use language.
— Robin Lakoff
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Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the…
— Steven Pinker
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It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody…
— Mos Def
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Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge…
— Nancy Pearl
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Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned…
— Northrop Frye
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It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even…
— Robert A. Heinlein
Who Wrote These Use Language Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 28 Use Language Quotes as follows: